[jira] [Created] (KAFKA-8584) Allow "bytes" type to generated a ByteBuffer rather than byte arrays

["Guozhang Wang (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Guozhang Wang created KAFKA-8584:
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             Summary: Allow "bytes" type to generated a ByteBuffer rather than byte arrays
                 Key: KAFKA-8584
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8584
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Sub-task
            Reporter: Guozhang Wang


Right now in the RPC definition, type {{bytes}} would be translated into {{byte[]}} in generated Java code. However, for some requests like ProduceRequest#partitionData, the underlying type would better be a ByteBuffer rather than a byte array.

One proposal is to add an additional boolean tag {{useByteBuffer}} for {{bytes}} type, which by default is false; when set to {{true}} set the corresponding field to generate {{ByteBuffer}} instead of {{[]byte}}. 



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