NLincoln opened a new pull request #10717: URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/10717
See #10709 for an example of this happening. The tl;dr is that Jackson will ignore trailing tokens by default, but other Json parsers cannot be configured to ignore them. This makes sure we don't regress :). # Testing I ran `./gradlew processMessages` and saw that everything completed succesfully. I then put a trailing `}` into one of the files and saw that `processMessages` failed. ### Committer Checklist (excluded from commit message) - [ ] Verify design and implementation - [ ] Verify test coverage and CI build status - [ ] Verify documentation (including upgrade notes) -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org