Guozhang Wang created KAFKA-3336: ------------------------------------ Summary: Unify ser/de pair classes into one serde class Key: KAFKA-3336 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3336 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Sub-task Reporter: Guozhang Wang Priority: Blocker Fix For: 0.10.0.0
Right now users must provide two separate classes for serializers and deserializers, respectively. This means the current API functions have at least 2 * numberOfTypes parameters. *Example (current, bad): "foo(..., longSerializer, longDeserializer)".* Because the serde aspect of the API is already one of the biggest UX issues, we should unify the serde functionality into a single serde class, i.e. one class that provides both serialization and deserialization functionality. This will reduce the number of required serde parameters in the API by 50%. *Example (suggested, better): "foo(..., longSerializerDeserializer)"*. * Note: This parameter name is horrible and only used to highlight the difference to the "current" example above. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)