GitHub user umesh9794 opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4259
KAFKA-5631 : Use Jackson for serialising to JSON This PR replaces the existing `Json.encode` to use Jackson serialization. Since the change is spread more than one module, it relies on the existing tests written for those modules. If required, I can write new tests as well. Please suggest. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/umesh9794/kafka KAFKA-5631 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4259.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 #4259 ---- commit 87b2377e1262d09ebfdeb5237bf4b47e9f2a8cdc Author: umesh chaudhary <umesh9...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-11-23T06:45:42Z KAFKA-5631 ---- ---