Personally, I think it might make sense to use annotations. And I agree,
that we should have proper null-checks in place anyway, so existing code
should not break.
But I don't feel strong about it either -- not sure if some people might
have concerns?
In the end, a KIP sound appropriate though.
Hello everyone,
I was thinking of doing a PR which involved adding @NotNull annotations to
various Kafka API's. Afaik the @NotNull annotation doesn't break binary
compatibility however it can break source compatibility.
The point is that even though using @NotNull can break source
compatibility,
