A. Sophie Blee-Goldman created KAFKA-12313:
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Summary: Consider deprecating the
default.windowed.serde.inner.class configs
Key: KAFKA-12313
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-12313
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: A. Sophie Blee-Goldman
During the discussion of KIP-659 we discussed whether it made sense to have a
"default" class for the serdes of windowed inner classes across Streams. Using
these configs instead of specifying an actual Serde object can lead to subtle
bugs, since the WindowedDeserializer requires a windowSize in addition to the
inner class. If the default constructor is invoked, as it will be when falling
back on the config, this windowSize defaults to MAX_VALUE.
If the downstream program doesn't care about the window end time in the output,
then this can go unnoticed and technically there is no problem. But if anything
does depend on the end time, or the user just wants to manually read the output
for testing purposes, then the MAX_VALUE will result in a garbage timestamp.
We should consider whether the convenience of specifying a config instead of
instantiating a Serde in each operator is really worth the risk of a user
accidentally failing to specify a windowSize
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