hi Jun, is there any example to follow? I tried your suggestion but looks like i am missing something..
Thanks, Navneet Sharma On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Navneet, > > The easiest way is to implement an Encoder and a Decoder of your objects > and specify it in the producer and the consumer, respectively. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:25 PM, navneet sharma < > navneetsharma0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am following this group from quite some time. Recently i tried sending > my > > customized object from producer instead of String. > > > > I was successful in that by providing a way to serialize my object and > > creating Message object like this: > > > > Object event = <some object>; > > Message message = new Message(TestUtils.getBytes(event)) > > producer.send(new ProducerData<Integer, Message>(topic, message)); > > > > TestUtils.getBytes just uses ObjectOutputStream to give a byte array. > > > > while i was succesful in sending the object, but i could not retrieve it > at > > consumer end since kafka.message.Message doesnt carry any information > about > > underlying object(or maybe its always assuming it to be String). > > > > My questions are: > > 1) Is it possible to send any other object then String? > > 2) If yes, then Can my approach be rectified? Or am i missing anything? > > > > Thanks, > > Navneet Sharma > > >
