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package kafka.producer
/**
* A partitioner controls the mapping between user-provided keys and kafka partitions. Users can implement a custom
* partitioner to change this mapping.
*
* Implementations will be constructed via reflection and are required to have a constructor that takes a single
* VerifiableProperties instance--this allows passing configuration properties into the partitioner implementation.
*/
trait Partitioner {
/**
* Uses the key to calculate a partition bucket id for routing
* the data to the appropriate broker partition
* @return an integer between 0 and numPartitions-1
*/
def partition(key: Any, numPartitions: Int): Int
}