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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-2475: --------------------------------------- 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. ---- > Reduce copycat configs to only specify a converter or serializer, not both > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-2475 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2475 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: copycat > Reporter: Ewen Cheslack-Postava > Assignee: Ewen Cheslack-Postava > Fix For: 0.8.3 > > > Ultimately, all we care about is getting from byte[] -> Copycat data API. The > current split of the interfaces makes it easy to reuse existing serializers, > but you still have to implement a new class. > It will be simpler, both conceptually and by requiring fewer configs, to > combine both these steps into a single API. This also allows certain formats > to preserve more information across these (e.g. for primitive types in > schema, which otherwise could lose certain schema information). -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)