[KAFKA-8466] Remove 'jackson-module-scala' dependency (and replace it with some code)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: core
• Labels: newbie
• Assignee: DanielCzosnek
• Reporter: Dejan Stojadinović
• Created: 03/Jun/19 09:51
• Updated: 26/Jul/23 11:37

Description

Prologue:

• https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/5454#issuecomment-497323889
• https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/5726/files#r289078080

Rationale: one dependency less is always a good thing.