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Matthias J. Sax reassigned KAFKA-7371:
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Assignee: (was: Danica Fine)
> Finally deprecate org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.ExtendedSerializer
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> Key: KAFKA-7371
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-7371
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: streams
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: Jouni
> Priority: Major
> Labels: beginner, needs-kip, newbie
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> As mentioned in the javadocs "Once Kafka drops support for Java 7, the
> serialize()} method introduced by this interface will be added to Serializer
> with a default implementation so that backwards compatibility is maintained.
> This interface may be deprecated once that happens.". Support for Java 7 was
> already dropped in Kafka 2.0.0 but this hasn't yet happened.
> The problem is that some out-of-project external serializers (for example,
> org.springframework.kafka.support.serializer.JsonSerializer, quite commonly
> used) already do add message headers when using producer API, one of those
> being __TypeId__, which contains the java class name. But when using streams
> DSL, there's no way to either access or modify those headers, and according
> to KIP-244, they get just copied to the sink. Also, because in
> RecordCollectorImpl.send there are calls
> final byte[] keyBytes = keySerializer.serialize(topic, key);
> final byte[] valBytes = valueSerializer.serialize(topic, value);
> and not
> final byte[] keyBytes = keySerializer.serialize(topic, headers, key);
> final byte[] valBytes = valueSerializer.serialize(topic, headers, value);
> which would be possible when the plain Serializer gets the default method
> added. So, currently, there's no way for anyone to write a serializer that
> modifies the headers if necessary when using streams.
> In my case, the problem occurred when transforming an object from input
> stream to a different type of object in output stream. Took a while to debug
> where did those (wrong) headers come from, and either disable adding those
> headers on producer side, or as I happened to be using Processor API, modify
> myself the headers in ProcessorContext.
> An unfortunate side-effect of two different projects making decisions
> affecting each other. Not exactly a bug in either one, but a really big
> nuisance to find out what's happening. I'd prefer things working as much as
> possible mostly out-of-the-box. Ok, API changes must sometimes just be made.
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