LightProducer (kafka-producer 2.0.28 API)

All Known Subinterfaces:

NativeLightProducer, QueuedLightProducer

All Known Implementing Classes:

SidecarProducer, TransactionalProducer
```
public interface LightProducer
```
A generic Kafka producer that can handle the header propagation with open and close methods to be called from the startup and shutdown hooks.

Author:

Steve Hu

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`close()`	This method is called by a shutdown hook to close the producer if it is not null.
`void`	`open()`	This method is used to create an instance of producer in a startup hook for most of the producers.

- Method Detail
  - open
```
void open()
```
    This method is used to create an instance of producer in a startup hook for most of the producers. Queued producer will start a background thread to process the queued message in batch and this method can be used to start the thread in a startup hook.
  - close
```
void close()
```
    This method is called by a shutdown hook to close the producer if it is not null.