ableegoldman commented on a change in pull request #6592: URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/6592#discussion_r618826368
########## File path: clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/serialization/ListSerializer.java ########## @@ -77,21 +87,39 @@ public void configure(Map<String, ?> configs, boolean isKey) { } } + private void serializeNullIndexList(final DataOutputStream out, List<Inner> data) throws IOException { + List<Integer> nullIndexList = IntStream.range(0, data.size()) + .filter(i -> data.get(i) == null) + .boxed().collect(Collectors.toList()); + out.writeInt(nullIndexList.size()); + for (int i : nullIndexList) out.writeInt(i); + } + @Override public byte[] serialize(String topic, List<Inner> data) { if (data == null) { return null; } - final int size = data.size(); try (final ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); final DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(baos)) { + out.writeByte(serStrategy.ordinal()); // write serialization strategy flag + if (serStrategy == SerializationStrategy.NULL_INDEX_LIST) { + serializeNullIndexList(out, data); + } + final int size = data.size(); out.writeInt(size); for (Inner entry : data) { - final byte[] bytes = inner.serialize(topic, entry); - if (!isFixedLength) { - out.writeInt(bytes.length); + if (entry == null) { + if (serStrategy == SerializationStrategy.NEGATIVE_SIZE) { + out.writeInt(Serdes.ListSerde.NEGATIVE_SIZE_VALUE); + } + } else { + final byte[] bytes = inner.serialize(topic, entry); + if (!isFixedLength || serStrategy == SerializationStrategy.NEGATIVE_SIZE) { + out.writeInt(bytes.length); Review comment: Awesome. Maybe I misunderstood this comment: >Even if we are dealing with primitives, and a user chooses SerializationStrategy.NEGATIVE_SIZE, we would have to encode each primitive's size in our payload. or maybe you just wrote that a while ago and it's out of date. Anyways what we're doing now sounds good, no reason to encode extra data even if the user selects this strategy for some reason. But I do think we should at least log a warning telling them they made a bad choice and it will be ignored. Most likely they just didn't understand what the parameter meant, and it's a good opportunity to enlighten them -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org