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                Author: ASF GitHub Bot
            Created on: 03/Sep/21 22:41
            Start Date: 03/Sep/21 22:41
    Worklog Time Spent: 10m 
      Work Description: aaltay commented on pull request #15090:
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/15090#issuecomment-912848064


   @WeiwenXu21 - please ping when you are ready to get back to this PR. (Not 
urgent, not a priority.)


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Issue Time Tracking
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    Worklog Id:     (was: 646507)
    Time Spent: 9h 20m  (was: 9h 10m)

> KafkaIO does not handle null keys
> ---------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BEAM-12008
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-12008
>             Project: Beam
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: io-java-kafka
>            Reporter: Daniel Collins
>            Assignee: Weiwen Xu
>            Priority: P2
>              Labels: stale-P2
>          Time Spent: 9h 20m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> Kafka 
> [ConsumerRecord|https://kafka.apache.org/27/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer/ConsumerRecord.html#key--]
>  and 
> [ProducerRecord|https://kafka.apache.org/27/javadoc/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/ProducerRecord.html#key--]
>  'key' fields are explicitly allowed to be null. In addition, on the producer 
> side, setting a null key is the way that the user indicates that they want a 
> [random partition for their 
> message|[https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/9adfac280392da0837cfd8d582bc540951e94087/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/producer/internals/DefaultPartitioner.java#L67].]
>  
> Beam KafkaIO does not support null keys in byte[] mode (read side: 
> [https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/9e0997760cf3320f1a1d0c4342d3dff559a25775/sdks/java/io/kafka/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/kafka/KafkaIO.java#L727|https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/9e0997760cf3320f1a1d0c4342d3dff559a25775/sdks/java/io/kafka/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/kafka/KafkaIO.java#L727)]
> write side: 
> [https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/9e0997760cf3320f1a1d0c4342d3dff559a25775/sdks/java/io/kafka/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/kafka/KafkaRecordCoder.java#L58])
>  
> since it would defer to ByteArrayCoder which does not support null arrays.
>  
> BeamKafkaTable suffers the same issue 
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/9e0997760cf3320f1a1d0c4342d3dff559a25775/sdks/java/extensions/sql/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/extensions/sql/meta/provider/kafka/BeamKafkaTable.java#L144



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