Feature request: Round Robin partitioner

[mheese]

Currently I have the problem that a round robin partitioner is missing. I need that for better distribution of messages along partitions.

[talevy]

Are you looking for another Partitioner class to use instead of the DefaultPartitioner?

Currently, you can write a RoundRobinParititioner class and add it to your classpath, then point to it using the paritioner_class option in the plugin.

please let me know if thats what you mean, thanks!

[mheese]

That is exactly what I am in the process of doing actually. It is quite inconvenient though in terms of setup, and I can imagine that it is a feature that a lot of people would like to see. Not sure if this is the right place to ask for it though actually.

[talevy]

Ok, Are you working on that now? I agree with you that it would be a good thing to have an example of so it may be easier to integrate future custom ones.

I can go ahead and work on an example, using round robin, if that would help

[ScottChapman]

Yea, this would be very useful. good message distribution is pretty critical for kafka...