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Jun Rao commented on KAFKA-2695:
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[~hachikuji], when using a compacted topic, we use a null value in the message
to indicate a delete. Are you saying the new consumer won't be able to parse
that?
> Handle null string/bytes protocol primitives
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> Key: KAFKA-2695
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2695
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Jason Gustafson
> Assignee: Jason Gustafson
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> The kafka protocol supports null bytes and string primitives by passing -1 as
> the size, but the current deserializers implemented in
> o.a.k.common.protocol.types.Type do not handle them.
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