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ASF GitHub Bot commented on KAFKA-3273: --------------------------------------- Github user asfgit closed the pull request at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/972 > MessageFormatter and MessageReader interfaces should be resilient to changes > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-3273 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3273 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: tools > Reporter: Ismael Juma > Assignee: Ismael Juma > Fix For: 0.10.0.0 > > > They should use `ConsumerRecord` and `ProducerRecord` as parameters and > return types respectively in order to avoid breaking users each time a new > parameter is added. > An additional question is whether we need to maintain compatibility with > previous releases. [~junrao] suggested that we do not, but [~ewencp] thought > we should. > Note that the KIP-31/32 change has broken compatibility for > `MessageFormatter` so we need to do _something_ for the next release. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)