Starting the consumer without the schema registry

[BenjaminDavison]

Hi All,

We don't use the schema registry in our environments just yet, is there a way to ignore the registry url?

Thanks,

Ben

[david-bc]

There is some convenience functionality that currently relies on the Schema Registry that won't work e.g. topic dropdown (I have plans to change that). So you will have to manually enter your topics in the producer/consumer.

But I just confirmed that the String, Int, and Long serializers/deserializers work without Schema Registry using Kafka 0.9.0.1 (kafka_2.11-0.9.0.1-cp1.jar) and zookeeper 3.4.6.

[BenjaminDavison]

Ah thanks! Didn't realise that you could still put in the topic name.