Yufan Sheng

This feature is quite strange. I don't know why you would have a message without a payload. But I don't want to directly add this ability. It should be a...

Closed. You can PING me if you still want this feature.

This feature is cool. We plan to add this support after the new Pulsar connector on the Flink is ready.

@objecttrouve Sorry for the late response. I still want to drop the `Builder` class, I would do a little code refactor and get this could be merged on `release-1.9`, `release-1.11`,...

@gaozhangmin I think you still need to use a shaded jackson based on @jianyun8023's review opinion.

The configuration may contain some authentication config options. Change to debug level may sound better. Or we can print the `ClientConfigurationData`.

We have dropped the `SchemaUtils` in the latest release. The schema compatible check should be moved to the Pulsar side. Can you confirm this on the master branch?

TODO Drop Schema push on old release branch.

@haormj Are you still working on this MR?

@jianyun8023 Have we finished the documentation on how to correctly use json or other deserialization method? If so, I think we can close this issue.