GitHub user bbejeck opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3568
updated configs to use one try/catch for serdes removed `try/catch` from `keySerde` and `valueSerde` methods so only the `try\catch` blocks in `defaultKeySerde` and `defaultValueSerde` perform error handling resulting in correct error message. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/bbejeck/kafka MINOR_ensure_correct_error_messages_for_configs Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3568.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 #3568 ---- commit bf56365ff1987a0089753283face62ece0edc594 Author: Bill Bejeck <b...@confluent.io> Date: 2017-07-24T21:33:05Z updated configs to use one try/catch for serdes, results in giving a correct error message. ---- --- 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. ---