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Tom Bentley commented on KAFKA-9927:
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I wrote
[KIP-625|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-625%3A+Richer+encodings+for+integral-typed+protocol+fields]
describing how we could implement this in a backward compatible way.
> Add support for varint types to message generator
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> Key: KAFKA-9927
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9927
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Jason Gustafson
> Assignee: Tom Bentley
> Priority: Major
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> It would be nice to be able to use either a "varint32" or "varint64" type or
> to add a flag to indicate variable length encoding.
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