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Stephen Powis commented on KAFKA-3333:
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Will link to a github pull request shortly.
> Client Partitioner - Round Robin
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> Key: KAFKA-3333
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3333
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: clients
> Reporter: Stephen Powis
> Original Estimate: 1h
> Remaining Estimate: 1h
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> The
> [DefaultPartitioner|https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/internals/DefaultPartitioner.java]
> typically distributes using the hash of the keybytes, and falls back to
> round robin if there is no key. But there is currently no way to do Round
> Robin partitioning if you have keys on your messages without writing your own
> partitioning implementation.
> I think it'd be helpful to have an implementation of straight Round Robin
> partitioning included with the library.
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