Patch to produce messages with null body using console producer

[jelmer <jk...@gmail.com>]

Hi folks,

A while back I opened a pull request (
https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/7567 )  that makes it possible to
produce messages with a null body using the kafka console producer.

I believe this is a useful addition as it makes it possible to
effectively "delete" records from a compacted kafka topic.

So far the pull request has not received any attention. The patch is fairly
minimal and does not break existing behaviour. Is there any chance someone
could take a look at this?

--Jelmer

Re: Patch to produce messages with null body using console producer

[Jungtaek Lim <ka...@gmail.com>]

You seem to hit wrong mailing list - please send to Kafka dev. mailing list.

On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 8:10 PM jelmer <jk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> A while back I opened a pull request (
> https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/7567 )  that makes it possible to
> produce messages with a null body using the kafka console producer.
>
> I believe this is a useful addition as it makes it possible to
> effectively "delete" records from a compacted kafka topic.
>
> So far the pull request has not received any attention. The patch is
> fairly minimal and does not break existing behaviour. Is there any chance
> someone could take a look at this?
>
> --Jelmer
>