[FLINK-8287] Flink Kafka Producer docs should clearly state what partitioner is used by default

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.1, 1.5.0
• Component/s: Connectors / Kafka, Documentation
• Assignee: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
• Reporter: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
• Created: 18/Dec/17 23:42
• Updated: 06/Jan/18 06:55
• Resolved: 06/Jan/18 06:55

Description

See original discussion in ML: http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/FlinkKafkaProducerXX-td16951.html

It is worth mentioning what partitioning scheme is used by the FlinkKafkaProducer by default when writing to Kafka, as it seems user are often surprised by the default FlinkFixedPartitioner.