yeralin commented on a change in pull request #6592:
URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/6592#discussion_r615075349
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File path:
clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/serialization/Serdes.java
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@@ -128,13 +128,27 @@ public UUIDSerde() {
static public final class ListSerde<Inner> extends
WrapperSerde<List<Inner>> {
+ final static int NEGATIVE_SIZE_VALUE = -1;
Review comment:
Basically, if we are following `VARIABLE_SIZE` serialization strategy
**and** we have a `null` entry in our list, we encode this null entry as `-1`,
so that during deserialization when we encounter `-1`, we append `null` entry
to our list.
Example, to serialize a list like `{"A", "B", null, "C"}` of strings, the
payload would look smth like:
```
serialization_flag | size_of_list_4 | A_size | A_encoded | B_size |
B_encoded | -1 | C_size | C_encoded
```
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