[KAFKA-5218] New Short serializer, deserializer, serde

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.1.1, 0.10.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.11.0.0
• Component/s: clients, streams
• Assignee: Mario Molina
• Reporter: Mario Molina
• Created: 11/May/17 00:52
• Updated: 31/May/17 22:11
• Resolved: 31/May/17 22:11

Description

There is no Short serializer/deserializer in the current clients component.

It could be useful when using Kafka-Connect to write data to databases with SMALLINT fields (or similar) and avoiding conversions to int improving a bit the performance in terms of memory and network.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3017
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3017