Kafka consumer receive null value when sending customer object - serialization

Question

So i want to implement application which reads data from json format files. And I have created customer object for the data in json. And I want to send these object through kafka topic. So far i have successfully send String message to producer to consumer. But when i try to send object, in the consumer side, when I do .value().toString(). I got null value. The following is the code I have used:
This is producer:
public class MyProducer {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.put("bootstrap.servers", "kafka.kafka-cluster-shared.non-prod-5-az-scus.prod.us.walmart.net:9092");
properties.put("key.serializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer");
properties.put("value.serializer", "xxxxxxxxx.KafkaJsonSerializer");
properties.put("acks", "1");
properties.put("retries", "2");
properties.put("batch.size", "16384");
properties.put("linger.ms", "1");
properties.put("buffer.memory", "33554432");
KafkaProducer<String, pharmacyData> kafkaProducer = new KafkaProducer<String, pharmacyData>(
properties);
String topic = "insights";
//try {
Gson gson = new Gson();
Reader reader = Files.newBufferedReader(Paths.get("......./part.json"));
List<pharmacyData> pdata = new Gson().fromJson(reader, new TypeToken<List<pharmacyData>>() {}.getType());
//pdata.forEach(System.out::println);
reader.close();
//} catch (Exception e) {
//e.printStackTrace();
//}
for (pharmacyData data : pdata) {
kafkaProducer.send(new ProducerRecord<String, pharmacyData>(topic, data), new Callback() {
#Override
public void onCompletion(RecordMetadata recordMetadata, Exception e) {
if (e == null) {
System.out.println(recordMetadata.partition() + "--" + recordMetadata.serializedValueSize());
} else {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
});
}
kafkaProducer.close();
}
}
This is the customer object class:
public class pharmacyData {
private String load_date;
private String store_nbr;
private String state;
private String pmp_flag;
private String zero_flag;
private String submit_ts;
public pharmacyData(String load_date, String store_nbr, String state, String pmp_flag, String zero_flag, String submit_ts) {
this.load_date = load_date;
this.store_nbr = store_nbr;
this.state = state;
this.pmp_flag = pmp_flag;
this.zero_flag = zero_flag;
this.submit_ts = submit_ts;
}
public String getLoad_date() {
return load_date;
}
public void setLoad_date(String load_date) {
this.load_date = load_date;
}
public String getStore_nbr() {
return store_nbr;
}
public void setStore_nbr(String store_nbr) {
this.store_nbr = store_nbr;
}
public String getState() {
return state;
}
public void setState(String state) {
this.state = state;
}
public String getPmp_flag() {
return pmp_flag;
}
public void setPmp_flag(String pmp_flag) {
this.pmp_flag = pmp_flag;
}
public String getZero_flag() {
return zero_flag;
}
public void setZero_flag(String zero_flag) {
this.zero_flag = zero_flag;
}
public String getSubmit_ts() {
return submit_ts;
}
public void setSubmit_ts(String submit_ts) {
this.submit_ts = submit_ts;
}
#Override
public String toString() {
return "pharmacyData{" +
"load_date='" + load_date + '\'' +
", store_nbr='" + store_nbr + '\'' +
", state='" + state + '\'' +
", pmp_flag='" + pmp_flag + '\'' +
", zero_flag='" + zero_flag + '\'' +
", submit_ts='" + submit_ts + '\'' +
'}';
}
}
this is the customer Serializer:
public class KafkaJsonSerializer implements Serializer {
private Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(this.getClass());
#Override
public void configure(Map map, boolean b) {
}
#Override
public byte[] serialize(String s, Object o) {
byte[] retVal = null;
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
try {
retVal = objectMapper.writeValueAsBytes(o);
} catch (Exception e) {
logger.error(e.getMessage());
}
return retVal;
}
#Override
public void close() {
}
}
This is the customer Deserializer:
public class KafkaJsonDeserializer implements Deserializer {
#Override
public void configure(Map map, boolean b) {
}
#Override
public Object deserialize(String s, byte[] bytes) {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
pharmacyData pdata = null;
try {
pdata = mapper.readValue(bytes, pharmacyData.class);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return pdata;
}
#Override
public void close() {
}
}
This is consumer:
public class MyConsumer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.put("bootstrap.servers", "kafka.kafka-cluster-shared.non-prod-5-az-scus.prod.us.walmart.net:9092");
properties.put("key.deserializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer");
properties.put("value.deserializer", "xxxxxxxx.KafkaJsonDeserializer");
properties.put("group.id", "consumer-group-1");
properties.put("enable.auto.commit", "true");
properties.put("auto.commit.interval.ms", "1000");
properties.put("auto.offset.reset", "earliest");
properties.put("session.timeout.ms", "30000");
KafkaConsumer<String, pharmacyData> consumer = new KafkaConsumer<>(properties);
String topic = "insights";
consumer.subscribe(Collections.singletonList(topic));
while (true) {
ConsumerRecords<String, pharmacyData> consumerRecords = consumer.poll(100);
for (ConsumerRecord<String, pharmacyData> consumerRecord : consumerRecords) {
System.out.println(consumerRecord.key() + "--" + consumerRecord.toString());
//System.out.println(consumerRecord.offset() + "--" + consumerRecord.partition());
}
}
}
}
Can someone please help me with the issues? Thank you very much!

Answer 1

Problem solved:
The solution of this issue just add a default constructor as below:
public pharmacyData() {
}
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