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package org.apache.kafka.streams.processor;
/**
* An interface that allows to dynamically determine the name of the Kafka topic to send at the sink node of the topology.
*/
public interface TopicNameExtractor {
/**
* Extracts the topic name to send to. The topic name must already exist, since the Kafka Streams library will not
* try to automatically create the topic with the extracted name.
*
* @param key the record key
* @param value the record value
* @param recordContext current context metadata of the record
* @return the topic name this record should be sent to
*/
String extract(final K key, final V value, final RecordContext recordContext);
}