Kafka Tool can show the actual string instead of the regular hexadecimal format

Question

if your messages are UTF-8 encoded strings, Kafka Tool can show the actual string instead of the regular hexadecimal format.

From the Kafka Tool Documentation:

By default Kafka Tool will show your messages and keys in hexadecimal format. However, if your messages are UTF-8 encoded strings, Kafka Tool can show the actual string instead of the regular hexadecimal format.

How do I turn my message into utf8?

Answer 1

The setup is per topic.

Go to:

Clusters > Topics > select topic > Properties > Content Types section > change Key and Message from Byte Array to String.

Then you can go to that topic > Partitions > your partition > Retrieve Messages .

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