Hey guys, We seem to have dropped the functionality to produce to a random partition by setting partition to -1 in 0.8. Presumably this is because we can no longer just choose a partition randomly, but need to pick a partition for which the given broker is a leader.
Questions/Comments 1. Not sure if this was intentional or if the code just got dropped... 2. Arguably it would be nice to continue to support this functionality to allow a simple partition unaware producer, but I actually don't think it will work because there is no guarantee that a given broker is a leader for ANY partitions. So I think this functionality has to move into the producers (it isn't complex, but that means all producers must be partition aware). 3. Regardless this functionality should NOT have been in log manager, which is responsible for managing logs and shouldn't have business logic (like inferring that an invalid partition id means choosing a random partition). 4. I am deleting the random assignment stuff from log manager as part of KAFKA-371 since it isn't used and I don't think it can be used in 0.8 Cheers, -Jay
