GitHub user ewencp opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/172
KAFKA-2475: Make Copycat only have a Converter class instead of Serializer, Deserializer, and Converter. The Converter class now translates directly between byte[] and Copycat's data API instead of requiring an intermediate runtime type like Avro's GenericRecord or Jackson's JsonNode. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/ewencp/kafka kafka-2475-unified-serializer-converter Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/172.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #172 ---- commit 4bed051e56ef0c55cf11bae59844221f68d18b42 Author: Ewen Cheslack-Postava <m...@ewencp.org> Date: 2015-08-26T19:08:17Z KAFKA-2475: Make Copycat only have a Converter class instead of Serializer, Deserializer, and Converter. The Converter class now translates directly between byte[] and Copycat's data API instead of requiring an intermediate runtime type like Avro's GenericRecord or Jackson's JsonNode. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---