I am trying to use flink kafka producer like below public static FlinkKafkaProducer<SelfDescribingMessageDO> createProducer() { Properties props = new Properties(); props.setProperty("bootstrap.servers", "<Server details>"); props.setProperty(ProducerConfig.KEY_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, ByteArraySerializer.class.getName()); props.setProperty(ProducerConfig.VALUE_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, ByteArraySerializer.class.getName());
return new FlinkKafkaProducer<>( "FlinkSdmKafkaTopic", new SerializationSchema("FlinkSdmKafkaTopic", 8), props, FlinkKafkaProducer.Semantic.AT_LEAST_ONCE); } private static class SerializationSchema implements KafkaSerializationSchema<SelfDescribingMessageDO> { final String topic; final int numPartitions; public SerializationSchema(final String topic, final int numPartitions) { this.topic = topic; this.numPartitions = numPartitions; } @Override public ProducerRecord<byte[], byte[]> serialize(SelfDescribingMessageDO sdm, @Nullable Long aLong) { return new ProducerRecord<>(topic, KafkaPublisher.getPartitionId(sdm.getHashKey(), numPartitions), sdm.getHashKey().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8), sdm.toByteArray()); } } I am getting the below exception when trying to deploy the flink job. During unit tests I am not getting this error. 2021-08-23T14:47:55.504Z WARN runtime.taskmanager.Task Source: MetricSource -> Filter -> MetricStoreMapper -> (Filter -> Timestamps/Watermarks -> Map -> Flat Map, Sink: FlinkKafkaProducer11, Sink: TSDBSink14) (5/8)#0 transitionState:1069 Source: MetricSource -> Filter -> MetricStoreMapper -> (Filter -> Timestamps/Watermarks -> Map -> Flat Map, Sink: FlinkKafkaProducer11, Sink: TSDBSink14) (5/8)#0 (5764a387ede7d6710bcf3ad4e2222248) switched from INITIALIZING to FAILED with failure cause: org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException: Failed to construct kafka producer at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer.<init>(KafkaProducer.java:432) at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer.<init>(KafkaProducer.java:298) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internals.FlinkKafkaInternalProducer.<init>(FlinkKafkaInternalProducer.java:77) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaProducer.createProducer(FlinkKafkaProducer.java:1230) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaProducer.initProducer(FlinkKafkaProducer.java:1346) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaProducer.initNonTransactionalProducer(FlinkKafkaProducer.java:1342) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaProducer.beginTransaction(FlinkKafkaProducer.java:990) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaProducer.beginTransaction(FlinkKafkaProducer.java:99) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.functions.sink.TwoPhaseCommitSinkFunction.beginTransactionInternal(TwoPhaseCommitSinkFunction.java:403) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.functions.sink.TwoPhaseCommitSinkFunction.initializeState(TwoPhaseCommitSinkFunction.java:394) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaProducer.initializeState(FlinkKafkaProducer.java:1195) at org.apache.flink.streaming.util.functions.StreamingFunctionUtils.tryRestoreFunction(StreamingFunctionUtils.java:189) at org.apache.flink.streaming.util.functions.StreamingFunctionUtils.restoreFunctionState(StreamingFunctionUtils.java:171) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractUdfStreamOperator.initializeState(AbstractUdfStreamOperator.java:96) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamOperatorStateHandler.initializeOperatorState(StreamOperatorStateHandler.java:118) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractStreamOperator.initializeState(AbstractStreamOperator.java:290) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.OperatorChain.initializeStateAndOpenOperators(OperatorChain.java:436) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.restoreGates(StreamTask.java:582) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTaskActionExecutor$SynchronizedStreamTaskActionExecutor.call(StreamTaskActionExecutor.java:100) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.executeRestore(StreamTask.java:562) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.runWithCleanUpOnFail(StreamTask.java:647) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.restore(StreamTask.java:537) at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.doRun(Task.java:759) at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:566) at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829) Caused by: org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException: class org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.ByteArraySerializer is not an instance of org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.Serializer at org.apache.kafka.common.config.AbstractConfig.getConfiguredInstance(AbstractConfig.java:374) at org.apache.kafka.common.config.AbstractConfig.getConfiguredInstance(AbstractConfig.java:392) at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer.<init>(KafkaProducer.java:359) Can someone let me know what is going wrong? I have added flink connector kafka as my dependency in the application code. <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId> <artifactId>flink-connector-kafka_2.12</artifactId> <version>1.13.1</version> </dependency> I only have flink-connector-kafka as the non test dependency in my pom (for kafka). [INFO] +- org.apache.flink:flink-connector-kafka_2.12:jar:1.13.1:compile [INFO] | +- org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:jar:2.4.1:compile [INFO] +- org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.12:jar:2.4.1:test [INFO] +- org.apache.flink:flink-connector-kafka_2.12:test-jar:tests:1.13.1:test [INFO] +- net.mguenther.kafka:kafka-junit:jar:2.4.0:test [INFO] | +- org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.11:jar:2.4.0:test [INFO] | +- org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.11:jar:test:2.4.0:test [INFO] | +- org.apache.kafka:kafka-clients:jar:test:2.4.0:test [INFO] | +- org.apache.kafka:connect-api:jar:2.4.0:test [INFO] | +- org.apache.kafka:connect-json:jar:2.4.0:test [INFO] | \- org.apache.kafka:connect-runtime:jar:2.4.0:test [INFO] | +- org.apache.kafka:kafka-tools:jar:2.4.0:test [INFO] | | +- org.apache.kafka:kafka-log4j-appender:jar:2.4.0:test [INFO] | +- org.apache.kafka:connect-transforms:jar:2.4.0:test