Hi Viktor, The approach where all the methods have a default implementation and the user chooses to override one of them seems the most appealing to me given the current state. It doesn't seem like we give up much in that case, what do you think?
Ismael On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 7:15 AM Viktor Somogyi <viktorsomo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ismael, > > Well, yes. If we care about headers only then you'd need to add a dummy > implementation for the 2 parameter method as well. Although it is not > ideal, we're using the Serializer interface everywhere and convert it to > extended with ensureExtended(serializer) and delegate to the 2 parameter > method inside the wrapper which is returned in ensureExtended. Because of > backward compatibility we have to keep delegating but I could perhaps add a > dummy implementation for the 2 parameter too if you and others think that > would be better. In this case though we'd have an interface where all > methods are default (given the improvements of KIP-331 > < > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-331+Add+default+implementation+to+close%28%29+and+configure%28%29+for+Serializer%2C+Deserializer+and+Serde > >) > and would have to rethink if this interface should be a > @FunctionalInterface. > I don't really have a context currently on how the 3 parameter method is > used, most the code samples I found on github were using the 2 parameter > method. I think I found one instance where the 3 parameter one was used but > that delegated to the 2 param one :). Have to say though that this research > is not representative. > All in all I think it wouldn't hurt to provide a default implementation for > the 2 param method too but then we have to give up the @FunctionalInterface > annotation and we'll end up with an interface with no abstract methods but > only defaults. > What do you think? > > Cheers, > Viktor > > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 11:02 AM Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: > > > Thanks for the KIP. It would be helpful to understand the user experience > > for the case where the implementor uses the headers. It seems like it > would > > require overriding two methods? > > > > Ismael > > > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 1:50 AM Viktor Somogyi <viktorsomo...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I've published KIP-336 which is about consolidating the > > > Serializer/Deserializer interfaces. > > > > > > Basically the story here is when ExtendedSerializer and > > > ExtendedDeserializer were added we still supported Java 7 and therefore > > had > > > to use compatible constructs which now seem unnecessary since we > dropped > > > support for Java 7. Now in this KIP I propose a way to deprecate those > > > patterns: > > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=87298242 > > > > > > I'd be happy to receive some feedback about the KIP I published. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Viktor > > > > > >
