[jira] [Updated] (FLUME-2846) flume-kafka-sink uses new kafka producer API

["Xin Wang (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2846?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Xin Wang updated FLUME-2846:
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    Description: 
why use [new producer API|http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#producerapi]?
because this new client is "both faster and more fully featured than the previous Scala client".

changes are following:
1. add kafka-clients dependency to flume-parent/pom.xml and flume-ng-kafka-sink.xml
2. use new producer api in KafkaSink
3. update producer configs in KafkaSinkConstants
4. update unit tests.


  was:
why use <a href="http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#producerapi">new producer API</a>?
because this new client is "both faster and more fully featured than the previous Scala client".

changes are following:
1. add kafka-clients dependency to flume-parent/pom.xml and flume-ng-kafka-sink.xml
2. use new producer api in KafkaSink
3. update producer configs in KafkaSinkConstants
4. update unit tests.



> flume-kafka-sink uses new kafka producer API
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLUME-2846
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2846
>             Project: Flume
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Sinks+Sources
>    Affects Versions: v1.6.0
>            Reporter: Xin Wang
>
> why use [new producer API|http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#producerapi]?
> because this new client is "both faster and more fully featured than the previous Scala client".
> changes are following:
> 1. add kafka-clients dependency to flume-parent/pom.xml and flume-ng-kafka-sink.xml
> 2. use new producer api in KafkaSink
> 3. update producer configs in KafkaSinkConstants
> 4. update unit tests.



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