There was a PR regarding this which was closed but the author of the PR created a spark-package: https://github.com/cloudera/spark-kafka-writer.
I don't know exactly why it was decided not be incorporated into spark however. On 15 Jan 2016 8:04 p.m., "Renyi Xiong" <renyixio...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We noticed there's no Save method in KafkaUtils. we do have scenarios > where we want to save RDD back to Kafka queue to be consumed by down stream > streaming applications. > > I wonder if this is a common scenario, if yes, any plan to add it? > > Thanks, > Renyi. >
