kafka-avro-console-producer Quick Start fails

Question

I'm using kafka-avro-console-producer from confluent-3.0.0 and error occurs when I execute the following:

./bin/kafka-avro-console-producer --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test1234 --property value.schema='{"type":"record","name":"myrecord","fields":[{"name":"f1","type":"string"}]}'
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/Users/tonydao/dev/bin/confluent-3.0.0/share/java/kafka-serde-tools/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.6.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/Users/tonydao/dev/bin/confluent-3.0.0/share/java/confluent-common/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.6.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/Users/tonydao/dev/bin/confluent-3.0.0/share/java/schema-registry/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.6.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory]
{"f1":"value1"}
{"f1":"value2"}

org.apache.kafka.common.errors.SerializationException: Error deserializing json  to Avro of schema {"type":"record","name":"myrecord","fields":[{"name":"f1","type":"string"}]}
Caused by: java.io.EOFException
    at org.apache.avro.io.JsonDecoder.advance(JsonDecoder.java:138)
    at org.apache.avro.io.JsonDecoder.readString(JsonDecoder.java:219)
    at org.apache.avro.io.JsonDecoder.readString(JsonDecoder.java:214)
    at org.apache.avro.io.ResolvingDecoder.readString(ResolvingDecoder.java:201)
    at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.readString(GenericDatumReader.java:363)
    at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.readString(GenericDatumReader.java:355)
    at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.read(GenericDatumReader.java:157)
    at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.readField(GenericDatumReader.java:193)
    at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.readRecord(GenericDatumReader.java:183)
    at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.read(GenericDatumReader.java:151)
    at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.read(GenericDatumReader.java:142)
    at io.confluent.kafka.formatter.AvroMessageReader.jsonToAvro(AvroMessageReader.java:189)
    at io.confluent.kafka.formatter.AvroMessageReader.readMessage(AvroMessageReader.java:157)
    at kafka.tools.ConsoleProducer$.main(ConsoleProducer.scala:55)
    at kafka.tools.ConsoleProducer.main(ConsoleProducer.scala)

Answer 1

1. Make sure that you are running all the required services(zookeeper kafka server and schema registry) from the confluent kafka package only.
2. You might have used some other version of kafka earlier on the same server and might need to clean the logs directory (/tmp/kafka is the default one)
3. Make sure you are not hitting Enter without providing data as it is considered as null and results into exception.
4. Try with a completely new topic