Hi, I noticed that String Serializer somehow doesn't do well encoding special characters such as "ü".
I tried to create a ByteBufferEncoder this way: import java.nio.ByteBuffer; import kafka.message.Message; import kafka.serializer.Encoder; public class ByteBufferEncoder implements Encoder<ByteBuffer> { public Message toMessage(ByteBuffer buffer) { return new Message(buffer); } } but I get this exception [1] Could you guys please advice on how to fix my encoding issue? Thanks [1] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid magic byte 34 at kafka.message.Message.compressionCodec(Message.scala:144) at kafka.message.ByteBufferMessageSet$$anon$1.makeNextOuter( ByteBufferMessageSet.scala:112) at kafka.message.ByteBufferMessageSet$$anon$1.makeNext( ByteBufferMessageSet.scala:138) at kafka.message.ByteBufferMessageSet$$anon$1.makeNext( ByteBufferMessageSet.scala:82) at kafka.utils.IteratorTemplate.maybeComputeNext(IteratorTemplate.scala:59) at kafka.utils.IteratorTemplate.hasNext(IteratorTemplate.scala:51) at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:631) at kafka.utils.IteratorTemplate.foreach(IteratorTemplate.scala:30) at scala.collection.IterableLike$class.foreach(IterableLike.scala:79) at kafka.message.MessageSet.foreach(MessageSet.scala:87) at kafka.producer.SyncProducer.kafka$producer$SyncProducer$$verifyMessageSize( SyncProducer.scala:139) at kafka.producer.SyncProducer.send(SyncProducer.scala:113) at kafka.producer.ProducerPool$$anonfun$send$1.apply$mcVI$sp( ProducerPool.scala:116) at kafka.producer.ProducerPool$$anonfun$send$1.apply(ProducerPool.scala:102) at kafka.producer.ProducerPool$$anonfun$send$1.apply(ProducerPool.scala:102) at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray$class.foreach( ResizableArray.scala:57) at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.foreach(ArrayBuffer.scala:43) at kafka.producer.ProducerPool.send(ProducerPool.scala:102) at kafka.producer.Producer.zkSend(Producer.scala:143) at kafka.producer.Producer.send(Producer.scala:105) at kafka.javaapi.producer.Producer.send(Producer.scala:104) at com.lucid.dao.queue.impl.kafka.KafkaProducer.send(KafkaProducer.java:63)