.net - Is there a way to use confluent Kafka Dotnet JSON serializer WITHOUT schema registry,

Question

Looking at https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-dotnet/blob/master/examples/JsonSerialization/Program.cs it requires Schema Registry URL. Is there a simple way to serialize/deserialize JSON without that extra complexity?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66057419/is-there-a-way-to-use-confluent-kafka-dotnet-json-serializer-without-schema-regi

Answer 1

JSON is a plaintext format. Use the String serializer

However, this doesn't guarantee your messages adhere to a particular format (required set of fields), so that's where you'd introduce a schema and a registry