Hello, While trying to run tests on my latest commit, I noticed the tester output was a bit strange. It complains about failing and somehow reads two additional characters, but after repeated analysis of the output and trying to see how the topic name was stored, it seems like it’s not on my end. J…

@fortwoone The extra empty trailing character looks like an off-by-one error: [image] The string_name_length cannot be used directly: [image] [image] Let me know if you’d like further clarification!

Hey @fortwoone , could you upload your code to GitHub and share the link? It will be much easier to debug if I can run it directly.

Here you go: GitHub - fortwoone/cpp_kafka: CPP light implementation of Kafka for Codecrafters' "Build your own Kafka" challenge

Ooh, I think I see. Thanks for the clarification! Will come back if I encounter any further weird errors

Possible tester error on stage vt6

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andy1li September 16, 2025, 8:44am 7

@fortwoone The extra empty trailing character looks like an off-by-one error:

The string_name_length cannot be used directly:

Let me know if you’d like further clarification!

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Possible tester error on stage vt6

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