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Additional type annotations - The Java APIs use Java generics in a way that are not fully compatible with the type inferencer of the Scala compiler. Hence the user has to add type annotations to the Scala code, which seems rather non-idiomatic in Scala.
Verbosity - In some cases the Java APIs appear too verbose compared to idiomatic Scala.
Type Unsafety - The Java APIs offer some options where the compile time type safety is sometimes subverted and can result in runtime errors. This stems from the fact that the serdes defined as part of config are not type checked during compile time. Hence any missing serdes can result in runtime errors.
The current work on the Scala wrapper is inspired from the works of Alexis Seigneurin on his Github Repository.
Proposed Changes
Summary
The suggested Scala library is a wrapper over the existing Java APIs for Kafka Streams DSL and addresses the above 3 concerns. It does not attempt to provide idiomatic Scala APIs that one would implement in a Scala library developed from scratch. The intention is to make the Java APIs more usable in Scala through better type inferencing, enhanced expressiveness, and lesser boilerplates.
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