Werner Daehn created KAFKA-4852: ----------------------------------- Summary: ByteBufferSerializer not compatible with offsets Key: KAFKA-4852 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-4852 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Bug Components: clients Affects Versions: 0.10.1.1 Environment: all Reporter: Werner Daehn Priority: Minor
Quick intro: A ByteBuffer.rewind() resets the position to zero. What if the ByteBuffer was created with an offset? new ByteBuffer(data, 3, 10)? The ByteBufferSerializer will send from pos=0 and not from pos=3 onwards. Solution: No rewind() but flip() for reading a ByteBuffer. That's what the flip is meant for. Story: Imagine the incoming data comes from a byte[], e.g. a network stream containing topicname, partition, key, value, ... and you want to create a new ProducerRecord for that. As the constructor of ProducerRecord requires (topic, partition, key, value) you have to copy from above byte[] the key and value. That means there is a memcopy taking place. Since the payload can be potentially large, that introduces a lot of overhead. Twice the memory. A nice solution to this problem is to simply wrap the network byte[] into new ByteBuffers: ByteBuffer key = ByteBuffer.wrap(data, keystart, keylength); ByteBuffer value = ByteBuffer.wrap(data, valuestart, valuelength); and then use the ByteBufferSerializer instead of the ByteArraySerializer. But that does not work as the ByteBufferSerializer does a rewind(), hence both, key and value, will start at position=0 of the data[]. public class ByteBufferSerializer implements Serializer<ByteBuffer> { public byte[] serialize(String topic, ByteBuffer data) { data.rewind(); -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)