Re: Kafka wire protocol and Wireshark capture don't seem to align.

There used to be a kafka dissector that I thought was shipped with Wireshark - does that decode this properly? I wasn't certain if you were trying to decode it yourself or if the kafka dissector wasn't working.

I wrote something up here about using the dissector, but it's been almost a decade since then…

-Steve

> On Oct 27, 2024, at 12:42 PM, Chain Head <mrchainhead@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (Apologies - I sent the same mail to the dev mailing list by mistake!)
>
> Hello,
> I set-up a simple Java client to publish a sample message to Kafka broker.
> I can see API Versions request v3 and response messages. I am able to map
> all the bytes as described here
> (https://kafka.apache.org/protocol.html#The_Messages_ApiVersions) for
> API
> Versions request and response except for 1 byte as shown below.
>
> - Length - INT32
> - Correlation ID - INT32
> - Error code - INT16
> - ? - 1 byte value 0x3c
> - Array of API keys, supported versions and tagged fields
> - Throttle - INT32
> - Tagged fields.
>
> Can you please help me understand?
>
> Thanks.