Building your own pluggable SerDe

Custom pluggable serde registration

You can implement your serde and register it in the UI. To do so:

1. Add serde-api dependency, link to maven central

2. Implement io.kafbat.ui.serde.api.Serde interface. See javadoc for implementation requirements.

3. Pack your serde into an uber jar, or provide a directory with no-dependency jar and its dependencies jars

Example pluggable serdes : kafka-smile-serde, kafka-glue-sr-serde

Sample configuration:

kafka:
  clusters:
    - name: Cluster1
      serde:
        - name: MyCustomSerde
          className: my.lovely.org.KafkaUiSerde
          filePath: /var/lib/kui-serde/my-kui-serde.jar
          
        - name: MyCustomSerde2
          className: my.lovely.org.KafkaUiSerde2
          filePath: /var/lib/kui-serde2
          properties:
            prop1: v1