[KAFKA-4250] make ProducerRecord and ConsumerRecord extensible

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.0.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.2.0
• Component/s: core
• Assignee: Radai Rosenblatt
• Reporter: Radai Rosenblatt
• Reviewer: Joel Jacob Koshy
• Created: 04/Oct/16 18:25
• Updated: 01/Dec/16 00:55
• Resolved: 01/Dec/16 00:55

Description

KafkaProducer and KafkaConsumer implement interfaces are are designed to be extensible (or at least allow it).

ProducerRecord and ConsumerRecord, however, are final, making extending producer/consumer very difficult.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1961