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Ismael Juma commented on KAFKA-17939:
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[~mjsax] The approach for public APIs in Kafka was decided more than a decade
ago - it was before I joined the project.
There have been many discussions about improvements (using annotations,
internals packages, both, etc.), but no-one has made it better yet. It is a
well known fact though and it has been brought up in many KIPs, PRs, etc.
With regards to tooling, it's actually pretty easy to expose a class with
`internals` in the package name since imports are far away from the method
signature (I've seen it happen before). That's why I think tooling is actually
really important independently of the approach we use.
> Kafka Streams API exposes org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Bytes which is not
> part of the public API
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> Key: KAFKA-17939
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-17939
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: streams
> Reporter: Mickael Maison
> Priority: Major
> Labels: needs-kip
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> Quite a few public API classes/interfaces in org.apache.kafka.streams and
> org.apache.kafka.streams.kstreams expose the
> org.apache.kafka.common.utils.Bytes class. However Bytes is not part of the
> public API.
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