Github user mjtieman commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/454#issuecomment-150746246 @HeartSaVioR No worries. I agree that the tupleMetaData flag is superfluous. The instanceof check that is being done to guarantee type safety can be used to determine which path to take when generating the tuples. This will require a little bit of tweaking since we will be moving the scheme instanceof check and cast out of KafkaUtils and into PartitionManager. Updating now.
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