io.confluent.kafka.serializers.subject.strategy

Interface SubjectNameStrategy

All Superinterfaces:

org.apache.kafka.common.Configurable

public interface SubjectNameStrategy
extends org.apache.kafka.common.Configurable

A SubjectNameStrategy is used by the serializer to determine the subject name under which the event record schemas should be registered in the schema registry. The default is TopicNameStrategy.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	subjectName(String topic, boolean isKey, ParsedSchema schema) For a given topic and message, returns the subject name under which the schema should be registered in the schema registry.
default boolean	usesSchema() Whether the strategy depends on the schema.

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.kafka.common.Configurable

configure

Method Detail

usesSchema

default boolean usesSchema()

Whether the strategy depends on the schema.

Returns:

Whether the strategy depends on the schema.

subjectName

String subjectName(String topic,
                   boolean isKey,
                   ParsedSchema schema)

For a given topic and message, returns the subject name under which the schema should be registered in the schema registry.

Parameters:

topic - The Kafka topic name to which the message is being published.

isKey - True when encoding a message key, false for a message value.

schema - the schema of the record being serialized/deserialized

Returns:

The subject name under which the schema should be registered.