KIP-810 — Allow producing records with null values in Kafka Console Producer
Accepted Kafka 3.2 ProducerAdmin
Adds a `null.marker` property to `kafka-console-producer.sh` that, when set, treats any matching input string as a null value, enabling production of tombstone records from the CLI. There is currently no way to produce null-valued records (tombstones) via the console producer, requiring users to rely on external tools like `kcat`.
Details
| Author | Mickael Maison |
| Status | Accepted |
| Kafka Version | 3.2 |
| JIRA | KAFKA-13595 |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2021-12-14 |
| Last Modified | 2022-02-01 |
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