GitHub user matzew opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3370
making util classes final and adding private ctor Utils with static methods should not be instantiated, hence marking the classes `final` and adding a `private` constructor. this is consistent w/ some of the Util classes, such as `ByteUtils`, see: https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/d345d53e4e5e4f74707e2521aa635b93ba3f1e7b/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/utils/ByteUtils.java#L29-L31 You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/matzew/kafka utils_improvment Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3370.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #3370 ---- commit 633fa03ab04df3a3e9ed48d4401828e1d969a5a5 Author: Matthias Wessendorf <mat...@apache.org> Date: 2017-06-19T12:42:44Z making util classes final and adding private ctor ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---