Jun Rao created KAFKA-1797:
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Summary: add the serializer/deserializer api to the new java client
Key: KAFKA-1797
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1797
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: core
Affects Versions: 0.8.2
Reporter: Jun Rao
Assignee: Jun Rao
Currently, the new java clients take a byte array for both the key and the
value. While this api is simple, it pushes the serialization/deserialization
logic into the application. This makes it hard to reason about what type of
data flows through Kafka and also makes it hard to share an implementation of
the serializer/deserializer. For example, to support Avro, the serialization
logic could be quite involved since it might need to register the Avro schema
in some remote registry and maintain a schema cache locally, etc. Without a
serialization api, it's impossible to share such an implementation so that
people can easily reuse.
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