What is the best way to publish and consume different type of messages?

[Ratha v <vi...@gmail.com>]

Hi all;
Im using kafka 0.0.8V.

I want to publish /consume byte[] objects, java bean objects, serializable
objects and much more..

What is the best way to define a publisher and consumer for this type
scenario?
When I consume a message from the consumer iterator, I do not know what
type of the message it is.
Can anybody point me a guide on how to design such scenarios?

Thanks.

-- 
-Ratha
http://vvratha.blogspot.com/

RE: What is the best way to publish and consume different type of messages?

["Tauzell, Dave" <Da...@surescripts.com>]

I suggest creating your own wrapper object to hold the data.  When using java serialized objects you'll need to take care of backwards compatibility. While this issue exists no matter what format you use, it is easy to make a new version of a java object and not think about if it is compatible.

-Dave

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ratha v [mailto:vijayaratha@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 7:00 PM
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Subject: What is the best way to publish and consume different type of messages?

Hi all;
Im using kafka 0.0.8V.

I want to publish /consume byte[] objects, java bean objects, serializable objects and much more..

What is the best way to define a publisher and consumer for this type scenario?
When I consume a message from the consumer iterator, I do not know what type of the message it is.
Can anybody point me a guide on how to design such scenarios?

Thanks.

--
-Ratha
http://vvratha.blogspot.com/
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