[GitHub] [pulsar] munir131 opened a new issue #8696: Admin REST API peek endpoint response should be more neat

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munir131 opened a new issue #8696:
URL: https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/8696


   **Is your enhancement request related to a problem? Please describe.**
   As per pulsar documentation,  
   ```
   In payload commands, the protobuf command data is followed by protobuf metadata and then the payload, which is passed in a raw format outside of protobuf.
   ```
   There is no easy way to extract payload from response of https://pulsar.apache.org/admin-rest-api/?version=2.6.2&apiversion=v2#operation/peekNthMessage endpoint.
   
   **Describe the solution you'd like**
   Ideally, peek should only return the payload without protobuf headers/commands. Alternatively, respond with a custom JSON response that contains parsed metadata and the payload separately.
   There are a few more alternatives like below:
   1. Respect `Accept` header and avoid protobuf in REST API and return JSON formatted payload and metadata(properties)
   2. Add a separator between metadata and payload so that payload can be parsed.
   


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