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Following this tutorial: LINK

I'm implementing the org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.Serializer interface in this way:

public class CustomSerializer implements Serializer {
private final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();

@Override
public byte[] serialize(String s, OrderDto data) {
    try {
        if (data == null) {
            System.out.println("Null received at serializing");
            return null;
        }
        System.out.println("Serializing...");
        return objectMapper.writeValueAsBytes(data);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        throw new SerializationException("Error when serializing MessageDto to byte[]");
    }
}

But I'm obtaining this error:

Class 'CustomSerializer' must either be declared abstract or implement abstract method 'serialize(String, T)' in 'Serializer'

If I override the serialize method in this way:

public byte[] serialize(String s, Object data) { ... }

Everything compile.

What I am missing ? OrderDto is an object too.

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