GitHub user evis opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4175
KAFKA-6161 add base classes for (De)Serializers with empty conf methods All (de)serializers, which have empty configure() and/or close() methods, are now inherit NoConf(De)Serializer. Also, such classes are created for extended (de)serializers. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/evis/kafka KAFKA-6161-serde-empty-conf-close-methods Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4175.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #4175 ---- commit 297115a53f6ea6c1bfd2383c0f73f011cb94c505 Author: Evgeny Veretennikov <evg.veretenni...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-11-03T15:38:18Z KAFKA-6161 add base classes for (De)Serializers with empty conf methods All (de)serializers, which have empty configure() and/or close() methods, are now inherit NoConf(De)Serializer. Also, such classes are created for extended (de)serializers. ---- ---