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data (bytearray)

Producer: This field holds data to be passed to the Kafka log by the Kafka Forwarding Agent (producer).

Collector: This field is populated with the data read from the Kafka log.

key (bytearray)

This field can be used to set a key for the broker's messages.

offset (long)

This is a read only field. This field is populated by the Kafka Collection agent and contains the offset in the Kafka log from where the message was consumed.

partition (short)

Producer: This field holds the partition to which the Kafka Forwarding agent (producer) writes the message. If this field is not populated, the partition is chosen randomly.

Collector: This field holds the partition from which the message was consumed by the Kafka Collection agent (consumer).

timestamp (long)

Producer: This is an optional field. A timestamp can be assigned before the UDR to a Kafka producer.

Consumer: If you set a timestamp on the producer it will be shown in the corresponding consumer.