[KAFKA-1861] Publishing kafka-client:test in order to utilize the helper utils in TestUtils

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.2.0
• Assignee: Manikumar
• Reporter: Navina Ramesh
• Created: 14/Jan/15 02:07
• Updated: 29/Jan/15 01:41
• Resolved: 29/Jan/15 01:41

Description

Related to SAMZA-227 (Upgrade KafkaSystemProducer to new java-based Kafka API)
Turns out that some of the utilities that are helpful in writing unit tests are available in org.apache.kafka.test.TestUtils.java (:kafka-clients). This is not published to maven repository. Hence, we are forced to reproduce the same code in samza. This can be avoided if the test package is published to the Maven repo.

For example, we are creating a customize MockProducer to be used in Samza unit-tests and access to these quick helper utils will be useful.