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Status
Current state: [One of "Under Discussion", "Accepted", "Rejected"]
Discussion thread: here
JIRA: here
Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).
Motivation
Describe the problems you are trying to solve.
Public Interfaces
Briefly list any new interfaces that will be introduced as part of this proposal or any existing interfaces that will be removed or changed. The purpose of this section is to concisely call out the public contract that will come along with this feature.
A public interface is any change to the following:
- Binary log format
- The network protocol and api behavior
- Any class in the public packages under clients
org/apache/kafka/common/serialization
org/apache/kafka/common
org/apache/kafka/common/errors
org/apache/kafka/clients/producer
org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer (eventually, once stable)
- Configuration, especially client configuration
- Monitoring
- Command line tools and arguments
Proposed Changes
Describe the new thing you want to do in appropriate detail. This may be fairly extensive and have large subsections of its own. Or it may be a few sentences. Use judgement based on the scope of the change.
Compatibility & Migration Plan
What impact (if any) will there be on existing users? If we are changing behavior how will we phase out the older behavior? If we need special migration tools, describe them here.