Don't think that option is available there, specifying 'value.deserializer' in my consumer-config.properties file gives
[2019-11-11 15:16:26,589] WARN The configuration 'value.serializer' was supplied but isn't a known config. (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerConfig) Does there exist a description of what properties the consumer-config properties file accepts ? I could find only a few references to it in the documentation. Jorg On 2019/11/11 13:00:03, "M. Manna" <manme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 at 10:58, Jorg Heymans <jorg.heym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have created a class implementing Deserializer, providing an > > implementation for > > > > public String deserialize(String topic, Headers headers, byte[] data) > > > > that does some conditional processing based on headers, and then calls the > > other serde method > > > > public String deserialize(String topic, byte[] data) > > > > What i'm seeing is that kafka-console-consumer only uses the second method > > when a value deserializer is specified. Is there a way to force it to > > invoke the first method, so i can do processing with headers ? I tried > > implementing the deprecated 'ExtendedSerializer' but it does not make a > > difference. > > > > Thanks, > > Jorg > > > > Have you tried providing a separate prop file using consumer.config > argument? Please see the reference here: > > --consumer.config <String: config file> Consumer config properties file. > Note > that [consumer-property] takes > precedence over this config. > > Try that and see how it goes. > > Thanks, >