Of course it can be done. Kafka producer is an example. On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Ashwin Chandra Putta < [email protected]> wrote:
> If it can be done, awesome! > > The usual use cases I have seen are CSV, json and avro. > > Regards, > Ashwin. > On Mar 5, 2016 8:28 PM, "Thomas Weise" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > 1. Take any java object as input and get the bytes of the string > > returned > > > > from toString method on the object. > > > > > > > > > > Yes. It would allow any java object and byte[] will be derived from the > > > toString(). If input is byte[]; then it would be passed on without any > > > conversion. > > > > > > > > Relying on toString() does not seem appropriate. Since you want the > > operator configurable, why not let the user configure how to serialize > the > > data. Default could be JSON. > > > > Thanks > > >
