Hello whiskers,

I am working on a simple webchat based on OpenWhisk  (full disclosure; it is for the book on OpenWhisk for O'Reilly!) and I am using MessageHub.

However in the documentation for the messaging package I read that the /whisk.system/messaging/messageHubProduce is deprecated, and the recommended way is to use a persistent connection to Kafka.

This statement is puzzling me.  My first idea is "why do not they cache the connection?", but I checked the code for messageHubProduce.py here:

https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-package-kafka/blob/master/action/messageHubProduce.py

and looks like the producer is cached, so I wonder if the deprecation of messageHubProduce is still valid.

Furthermore, I wrote an action to send messages to MessageHub with the idea of implementing a cached connection, and apparently works:

https://github.com/learning-apache-openwhisk/chapter11-messages/blob/master/src/persistent/main/send.go

So the question is: is this the correct way to send messages to Kafka (caching connnections?) Can I recommend this practice in the book?


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  Michele Sciabarra
  michele@sciabarra.com