Major Description
Design the API used for runtime data in Copycat. This API is used to construct schemas and records that Copycat processes. This needs to be a fairly general data model (think Avro, JSON, Protobufs, Thrift) in order to support complex, varied data types that may be input from/output to many data systems.
This should issue should also address the serialization interfaces used within Copycat, which translate the runtime data into serialized byte[] form. It is important that these be considered together because the data format can be used in multiple ways (records, partition IDs, partition offsets), so it and the corresponding serializers must be sufficient for all these use cases.