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Building Data Streaming Applications with Apache Kafka
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Building Data Streaming Applications with Apache Kafka

by Chanchal Singh, Manisha Sethi, Manish Kumar, Anshul Joshi
August 2017
Beginner to intermediate
278 pages
6h 40m
English
Packt Publishing
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Producer object and ProducerRecord object

Producer accepts the ProducerRecord object to send records to the .ProducerRecord topic. It contains a topic name, partition number, timestamp, key, and value. Partition number, timestamp, and key are optional parameters, but the topic to which data will be sent and value that contains the data is mandatory.

  • If the partition number is specified, then the specified partition will be used when sending the record
  • If the partition is not specified but a key is specified, a partition will be chosen using a hash of the key
  • If both key and partition are not specified, a partition will be assigned in a round-robin fashion

Here is the producerRecord in Java:

ProducerRecord producerRecord = new ProducerRecord ...
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