Luke Cwik created BEAM-10529:
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Summary: Kafka XLang fails for ?empty? key/values
Key: BEAM-10529
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-10529
Project: Beam
Issue Type: Bug
Components: io-java-kafka, sdk-py-core
Reporter: Luke CwikIt looks like the Javadoc for ByteArrayDeserializer and StringDeserializer can return null[1, 2] and we aren't using NullableCoder.of(ByteArrayCoder.of()) in the expansion[3]. Note that KafkaIO does this correctly in its regular coder inference logic[4]. 1: https://kafka.apache.org/21/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/common/serialization/ByteArrayDeserializer.html#deserialize-java.lang.String-byte:A-2: https://kafka.apache.org/21/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/common/serialization/StringDeserializer.html#deserialize-java.lang.String-byte:A- 3: https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/af2d6b0379d64b522ecb769d88e9e7e7b8900208/sdks/java/io/kafka/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/kafka/KafkaIO.java#L478 4: https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/af2d6b0379d64b522ecb769d88e9e7e7b8900208/sdks/java/io/kafka/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/kafka/LocalDeserializerProvider.java#L85 -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)
