Kafka plugin support for Avro message or custom Deserializer class

Hi,

We like to use the Kafka plugin for (binairy) Avro messages.  Are there intention to support this kind of messages.

Also the plugin has an option for a custom Deserializer class, but this does't seem to be used and also the code always expects that the value is a String. 

Is there an example of a custom deserializer class for a non-text based message value?  Should this be possible? 

Thanks

Klaas Pieter Boerema

Rabobank.