Hi Rajiv, You can send messages without keys. Just provide null for key.
Jiangjie (Becket) Qin On 12/19/14, 10:14 AM, "Rajiv Kurian" <ra...@signalfuse.com> wrote: >Hi all, > >I was wondering what why every ProducerRecord sent requires a serialized >key. I am using kafka, to send opaque bytes and I am ending up creating >garbage keys because I don't really have a good one. > >Thanks, >Rajiv