Status

Current state:  Under Discussionaccepted

Discussion thread: here [Change the link from the KIP proposal email archive to your own email thread] 

Voting thread: here

JIRA:

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Where the default key and value serde used to be a byte array, it will now be null. Instead of throwing Null Pointer Exceptions, we'll throw a Streams Config Exception to remind the user that they need to set a serde through the default configs or pass one in.

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