GitHub user jcustenborder opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3556
KAFKA-5620 Expose the ClassCastException as the cause for the SerializationException. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/jcustenborder/kafka KAFKA-5620 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3556.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 #3556 ---- commit 42af71d407e39c1ef4d13fecab05ed59a9c8354f Author: Jeremy Custenborder <jcustenbor...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-07-20T16:48:00Z KAFKA-5620 - Expose the ClassCastException as the cause for the SerializationException. ---- --- 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. ---