Kevin Bader

Hi @brooksmtownsend, thanks for reporting. Happy to review a PR if you‘d like to contribute! Otherwise it’ll take some time for me to look into this, as I’m currently busy...

> I'm curious though, would you be fine with me making erlavro an optional dependency in addition to updating it? JSON is required, but we (and likely others) use this...

> However, in this case, per section 3.1 it is a string that just happens to look like JSON. Exactly, that's my point - `datacontenttype` is not interpreted like it...

As my original post above suggests, I also have some difficulties following the JSON Format spec and would appreciate guidance (I'm currently implementing an Elixir lib for handling CloudEvents). The...

@duglin well, I still think that this part of the spec could be improved a lot - I'm still not sure how to implement this in the Elixir library for...

@duglin well, I've implemented this according to the spec and the replies here: https://github.com/kevinbader/cloudevents-ex/blob/master/test/format/v_1_0/decoder/json_test.exs Not particularly happy with it but I guess that's how it is.

Same here.. ``` Gradle 3.2.1 Groovy: 2.4.7 Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.6 compiled on June 29 2015 JVM: 1.8.0_111 (Oracle Corporation 25.111-b14) OS: Windows 10 10.0 amd64 ``` Same error...

So, even though we thought the sasl2 gssapi plugin was installed, it really wasn't, so we **solved** the NOMECH error described above. **However: we now see [SASL_FAIL (-1)](https://github.com/ElMaxo/brod_gssapi/blob/master/src/brod_gssapi.erl) when connecting**....

Okay SASL works now (the client node was missing an `/etc/hosts` entry for the Kafka broker). But we still can't connect - it _seems_ like the Kafka protocol implementation doesn't...

Thanks for the usage example -- being new to both Elixir and Erlang, it helps a lot. If I understand correctly, the `handle_message` callback is called by Brod for every...