[KAFKA-5631] Use Jackson for serialising to JSON

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.0
• Labels: newbie
• Assignee: Umesh Chaudhary
• Reporter: Ismael Juma
• Created: 24/Jul/17 10:43
• Updated: 12/Dec/17 16:41
• Resolved: 12/Dec/17 16:41

Description

We currently serialise to JSON via a manually written method `Json.encode`. The implementation is naive: it does a lot of unnecessary String concatenation and it doesn't handle escaping well.

KAFKA-1595 switches to Jackson for parsing, so it would make sense to do this after that one is merged.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4259