[KAFKA-2485] Allow producer performance to take properties from a file via --producer.config command line parameter

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0.0
• Assignee: Dong Lin
• Reporter: Dong Lin
• Created: 28/Aug/15 00:09
• Updated: 31/Aug/15 19:39
• Resolved: 31/Aug/15 19:39

Description

In order to allow ProducerPerformance to produce via ssl connection, we need the following (example) configuration:

security.protocol=SSL
ssl.protocol=TLS
ssl.truststore.type=JKS
ssl.truststore.location=serverkeystore.jks
ssl.truststore.password=password
ssl.keymanager.algorithm=SunX509
ssl.trustmanager.algorithm=SunX509

There are two ways to achieve it: 1) extend ProducerPerformance to explicitly accept all 7 ssl-related parameters; 2) allow ProducerPerformance to take properties from a file via --consumer.config command line parameter.

It seems option 2) is better, because it requires less code, allows new options to be easily added in the future, and doesn't require user to specify password in the command line.