[jira] [Commented] (KAFKA-2041) Add ability to specify a KeyClass for KafkaLog4jAppender

["Benoy Antony (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Benoy Antony commented on KAFKA-2041:
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[~junrao], could I please get a review of this enhancement ?

> Add ability to specify a KeyClass for KafkaLog4jAppender
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>
>                 Key: KAFKA-2041
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2041
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: producer 
>            Reporter: Benoy Antony
>            Assignee: Jun Rao
>         Attachments: KAFKA-2041.patch, kafka-2041-001.patch, kafka-2041-002.patch, kafka-2041-003.patch
>
>
> KafkaLog4jAppender is the Log4j Appender to publish messages to Kafka. 
> Since there is no key or explicit partition number, the messages are sent to random partitions. 
> In some cases, it is possible to derive a key from the message itself. 
> So it may be beneficial to enable KafkaLog4jAppender to accept KeyClass which will provide a key for a given message.



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