yeralin commented on a change in pull request #6592:
URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/6592#discussion_r620802248



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File path: 
clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/serialization/ListSerializer.java
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@@ -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:
       Hmmm, @mjsax reasoning was that in the future we could introduce 
**more** serialization strategies 
(https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/6592#discussion_r370513438)
   




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