MassTransit Kafka null message handling

Question

In our application there is a possibility that the message on Kafka topic is null, while the key is not empty. We'd like to handle those messages, but they are skipped instead of being consumed. Is there a possibility to consume a message from Kafka topic even when it is empty?

Answer 1

I doubt it, since there is no body it would not be deserialized. Unless you configured your own custom deserializer that treated a null message body as something other than null.