Hi Igal,

Ah that definitely helps to know for Function -> Function invocations, but
when doing Ingress via statefun how would that work? Is there a config I
can set in the "module.yaml" to have it just pack arbitrary bytes into the
Any?

Thanks,

Tim

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 7:01 AM Igal Shilman <i...@ververica.com> wrote:

> Hi Tim,
>
> You are correct, currently the argument to a remote function must be a
> Protobuf Any, however StateFun doesn't interpret the contents of that Any,
> and it would be passed as-is to the remote function.
> As you mentioned in your email you can interpret the bytes as the bytes of
> a JSON string.
>
> I hope it helps,
> Igal.
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 5:06 AM Timothy Bess <tdbga...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> So most of the examples of "module.yaml" files I've seen focus on
>> protobuf ingress, but is there a way to just get bytes from Kafka? I want
>> to integrate this with the rest of my codebase which uses JSON, but don't
>> want to migrate to protobuf just yet. I'm not totally sure how it would
>> work since function arguments seem to be encoded as an Any type which is a
>> protobuf type string + some bytes, I guess the string would need to be some
>> made up constant value and I'd just grab the bytes? Honestly just using
>> bytes like is done with the state value might be a bit more flexible to
>> work with.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tim
>>
>

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