GitHub user ijuma opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/987
MINOR: DefaultMessageFormatter custom deserializer fixes The ability to specify a deserializer for keys and values was added in a recent commit (845c6eae1f6c6bcf11), but it contained a few issues. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/ijuma/kafka console-consumer-cleanups Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/987.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #987 ---- commit 06b5beedb7c9baa9e76a726a523e1218073f20fc Author: Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> Date: 2016-02-29T22:54:15Z Remove `println` that were merged to trunk by mistake commit a48db9f8abcad1c5121b26bf43212252f0d81c12 Author: Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> Date: 2016-02-29T22:56:07Z Change `key.decoder` to `key.deserializer` and `value.decoder` to `value.deserializer` This makes it consistent with the new consumer. commit 29ead51aafbd25fca280a38ea0418c2465b4a33c Author: Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> Date: 2016-02-29T23:42:56Z Handle case where user doesn't provide deserializer correctly ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---