+ /**
+ * Identifies the URI, at which the Group-Instance can be reached,
+ * that holds the state for a specific {@link Transfer}.
+ *
+ * The {@link Transfer#getId() ID} of the {@link Transfer} is named
+ * {@code key} here and of type {@code String}, because this example
+ * project stores the key as a String in Kafka to simplify the listing
+ * and manual manipulation of the according topic.
+ *
+ * @param key A {@code String}, that represents the {@link Transfer#getId() ID} of a {@link Transfer}.
+ * @return An {@link Optional}, that holds the URI at which the Group-Instance
+ * can be reached, that holds the state for the {@link Transfer}, that
+ * is identified by the key (if present), or is empty, if the {@link Transfer}
+ * would be handled by the local instance.
+ */