[KAFKA-27] Provide a default encoder for kafka.producer.Producer

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.6
• Fix Version/s: 0.6
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Anonymous
• Created: 19/Jul/11 21:32
• Updated: 19/Jul/11 21:32
• Resolved: 19/Jul/11 21:32

Description

Today, the "serializer.class" parameter in Producer is required. It is reasonable, however, to provide a default no-op Encoder<Message>. The client would have to type the Producer accordingly though.

For example, this would work -
val producer = new Producer<String, Message>(config)

This wouldn't -
val producer = new Producer<String, String>(config