Merge branch 'master' into 'Feign_Client_Branch'

# Conflicts:
#   build.gradle
#   gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
#   src/main/java/com/safeway/epe/StoreProducerApplication.java
#   src/main/java/com/safeway/epe/controller/TransactionController.java
#   src/main/java/com/safeway/epe/domain/TransactionRecorder.java
#   src/main/java/com/safeway/epe/service/ProducerService.java
#   src/main/java/com/safeway/epe/service/TransactionService.java
#   src/main/java/com/safeway/epe/service/TransactionServiceImpl.java
#   src/test/java/com/safeway/epe/StoreProducerApplicationTests.java

src/main/java/com/safeway/epe/Config/ConfigProps.java

+package com.safeway.epe.Config;
+
+import lombok.Data;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
+import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationProperties;
+import org.springframework.boot.web.client.RestTemplateBuilder;
+import org.springframework.boot.web.client.RootUriTemplateHandler;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
+import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;
+import org.springframework.web.util.UriTemplateHandler;
+
+@Data
+@Configuration
+@ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "kafka.producer")
+public class ConfigProps {
+
+    private String offerTransactionRecordTopic;
+
+    @Value("${schema.api.baseurl}")
+    private String schemaBaseUrl;
+
+    private static final String USER_AGENT = "Producer";
+    private static final String APPLICATION_KAFKA_JSON_VALUE = "application/vnd.kafka.json.v2+json";
+    private static final String ACCEPT_APPLICATION_KAFKA_JSON_VALUE = "application/vnd.kafka.v2+json";
+
+    @Bean
+    RestTemplate restTemplate(RestTemplateBuilder builder) {
+        UriTemplateHandler uriTemplateHandler = new RootUriTemplateHandler(schemaBaseUrl);
+        return builder
+                .uriTemplateHandler(uriTemplateHandler)
+                .defaultHeader(HttpHeaders.USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT)
+                .defaultHeader(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, APPLICATION_KAFKA_JSON_VALUE)
+                .defaultHeader(HttpHeaders.ACCEPT, ACCEPT_APPLICATION_KAFKA_JSON_VALUE)
+                .build();
+    }
+}

src/main/resources/avro/transactionRecord.avsc

+{
+  "name": "TransactionRecorder",
+  "type": "record",
+  "namespace": "com.safeway.epe.domain",
+  "fields": [
+    {
+      "name": "uuid",
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "offertransactionresponse",
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "offers",
+      "type": "string"
+    }
+  ]
+}
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