Re: Kafka appender expecting String but getting Byte?

Log4j always passes the LogEvent as a byte[] to Kafka, so using the Kafka StringSerializer will not work. You should not specify *key.serializer* or *value.serializer* in the Kafka appender config, they are automatically set to ByteArraySerializer by Log4j. I will improve the documentation on

Re: Kafka appender expecting String but getting Byte?

Also, also, you can try building our Git master branch which uses Kafka 0.10.0.0 instead of 0.9.0.1 Gary On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: > Also, try omitting these properties: > > org.apache.kafka.common. > serialization.StringSerializer >

Re: Kafka appender expecting String but getting Byte?

Also, try omitting these properties: org.apache.kafka.common. serialization.StringSerializer org.apache.kafka.common. serialization.StringSerializer Gary On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: > Do you get a stack trace with the exception?

Re: Kafka appender expecting String but getting Byte?

Do you get a stack trace with the exception? Gary On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Meadowlark Bradsher < mbrads...@guidewire.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am attempting to use a kafka log appender. The topic is written to Kafka > but the appender breaks during the messaging. > >

Kafka appender expecting String but getting Byte?

Hello, I am attempting to use a kafka log appender. The topic is written to Kafka but the appender breaks during the messaging. org.apache.kafka.common.errors.SerializationException: Can't convert value of class [B to class org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer specified in