Jay Kreps created KAFKA-678: ------------------------------- Summary: We should default to NullEncoder for producer Key: KAFKA-678 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-678 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 0.8 Reporter: Jay Kreps Assignee: Jay Kreps
Currently we default to using whatever serializer you set for your value to also work for your key. This works if the serializer is of a generic sort (Avro, Java serialization, etc) and both key and value map into this. However if you have a custom serializer this is not the right thing to do. I think it would be better to default this to NullEncoder which defaults to maintain the pre-0.8 behavior of not retaining the key. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira