Kafka producer config to send a message immediately

Question

I am using Kafka producer 0.8.2 and I am trying to send a single message to the topic, in a way that the message is sent immediately. I have a console consumer to observe if the message arrives. I notice that the message is not sent immediately, unless of course I run producer.close(), immediately after sending, which isn't what I would like to do.

What is the correct producer configuration setting to target this? I'm using the following (I'm aware that it looks like a mess of different configurations/versions, but I simply cannot find something that's working as I would expect in the documentation):

Properties props = new Properties();
props.put(ProducerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, brokersStr);
props.put(ProducerConfig.RETRIES_CONFIG, "3");
props.put("producer.type", "sync");
props.put("batch.num.messages", "1");
props.put(ProducerConfig.ACKS_CONFIG, "all");
props.put(ProducerConfig.COMPRESSION_TYPE_CONFIG, "none");
props.put(ProducerConfig.BATCH_SIZE_CONFIG, 1);
props.put(ProducerConfig.BLOCK_ON_BUFFER_FULL_CONFIG, true);
props.put(ProducerConfig.KEY_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer");
props.put(ProducerConfig.VALUE_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer");

Answer 1

I found a solution, which seems reasonable, and involves running get() on the Future returned by the Producer's send() command. I changed the send command from:

producer.send(record);

to the following:

producer.send(record).get();

It would be nice to hear from the more experienced Kafka users if there are any issues with that approach? Also, I would be interested to learn if there is a configuration setting for the Producer to achieve the same thing (that is, send a single message immediately without running get() of the Future).