kafkaTemplate in KafkaItemWriter should be protected #3802
Description
As of v4.3.0, the kafkaTemplate field in KafkaItemWriter is private. This makes it impossible to use the template in overridden methods like writeKeyValue or write:
KafkaItemWriter<String, String> myCustomKafkaItemWriter = new KafkaItemWriter<String, String>() {
@Override
public void write(List<? extends String> items) throws Exception {
// unable to use super.kafkaTemplate here
}
};The visibility of the field kafkaTemplate in KafkaItemWriter should be changed from private to protected.