I'm trying to understand the difference between Encoders/Decoders and Serializers/Deserializers and when I should be using each. Specifically the types I'm referring to are:
- kafka.serializer.Encoder - kafka.serializer.Decoder - org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.Serializer - org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.Deserializer Some background: I'd like to append a standard set of metadata to messages to a number of topics in a manner that is agnostic to their encoding. I was hoping to do this by providing [en|de]coders that inject/extract the metadata and then delegate to user supplied [en|de]coders to handle the encoding of the users actual payload. Thanks - Elliot.
