Hi all, I've added a pretty trivial KIP for adding a pass-through Converter for Kafka Connect, similar to ByteArraySerializer/Deserializer.
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-128%3A+Add+ByteArrayConverter+for+Kafka+Connect This wasn't added with the framework originally because the idea was to deal with structured data for the most part. However, we've seen a couple of use cases arise as the framework got more traction and I think it makes sense to provide this out of the box now so people stop reinventing the wheel (and using a different fully-qualified class name) for each connector that needs this functionality. I imagine this will be a rather uncontroversial addition, so if I don't see any comments in the next day or two I'll just start the vote thread. -Ewen
