in the example https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/0.8.0+Producer+Example
we use a String,String for <K,V> in the same set of example https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Consumer+Group+Example on the consumer side we use byte[], byte[] for K,V ConsumerIterator<byte[], byte[]> it = m_stream.iterator(); we tested in our own code that the above producer-consumer pair does work. so the K,V types on the 2 sides do NOT need to match? if we argue that "everything has to come down to byte[], then maybe we don't need the generics types on the consumer side? in other words, how do we determine the K,V types on consumer side? thanks Yang
