Reactor Kafka: ReactiveKafkaProducerTemplate

Question

I've just started using Reactor Kafka. I am wondering when and why use ReactiveKafkaProducerTemplate over KafkaSender which is found in official reactor kafka reference guide?

Answer 1

It's your choice; it's a wrapper around the KafkaSender.

Currently, the only real value add is the use of a MessageConverter which can convert a spring-messaging Message<?> to a ProducerRecord.