KIP-907 — Add Boolean Serde to public interface
Accepted Kafka 3.5 StreamsClient
Adds `BooleanSerializer`, `BooleanDeserializer`, and `Serdes.Boolean()` to the public `org.apache.kafka.common.serialization` package. Boolean was the only primitive type missing from Kafka's built-in serialization library, requiring users to implement their own or convert to byte/integer.
Details
| Author | Spacrocket |
| Status | Accepted |
| Kafka Version | 3.5 |
| JIRA | KAFKA-14491 |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2023-02-20 |
| Last Modified | 2023-03-06 |
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