Kafka Listener method could not be invoked with the incoming message

I am sending an array of JSON by converting it to toString() in Kafka Producer using Spring Boot app, but I am getting following error in Consumer:

org.springframework.kafka.listener.ListenerExecutionFailedException: Listener method could not be invoked with the incoming message Endpoint handler details: Method [public void com.springboot.service.KafkaReciever.recieveData(com.springboot.model.Student,java.lang.String) throws java.lang.Exception] Bean [com.springboot.service.KafkaReciever@5bb3d42d]; nested exception is org.springframework.messaging.converter.MessageConversionException: Cannot handle message; nested exception is org.springframework.messaging.converter.MessageConversionException: Cannot convert from [java.lang.String] to [com.springboot.model.Student] for GenericMessage [payload=[com.springboot.model.Student@5e40dc31, com.springboot.model.Student@235e68b8], headers={kafka_offset=45, kafka_receivedMessageKey=null, kafka_receivedPartitionId=0, kafka_receivedTopic=myTopic-kafkasender}], failedMessage=GenericMessage [payload=[com.springboot.model.Student@5e40dc31, com.springboot.model.Student@235e68b8], headers={kafka_offset=45, kafka_receivedMessageKey=null, kafka_receivedPartitionId=0, kafka_receivedTopic=myTopic-kafkasender}]

Configuration File:

@Configuration
@EnableKafka
public class KafkaConsumerConfig {

    @Value("${kafka.boot.server}")
    private String kafkaServer;

    @Value("${kafka.consumer.group.id}")
    private String kafkaGroupId;

    @Bean
    public ConsumerFactory<String, String> consumerConfig() {

         Properties props = new Properties();

         props.put("bootstrap.servers", "localhost:9092");
         props.put(ConsumerConfig.GROUP_ID_CONFIG, kafkaGroupId);
         props.put("message.assembler.buffer.capacity", 33554432);
         props.put("max.tracked.messages.per.partition", 24);
         props.put("exception.on.message.dropped", true);
         props.put(ConsumerConfig.KEY_DESERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, StringDeserializer.class);
         props.put(ConsumerConfig.VALUE_DESERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, StringDeserializer.class);
         props.put("segment.deserializer.class", DefaultSegmentDeserializer.class.getName());

         return new DefaultKafkaConsumerFactory(props, null, new StringDeserializer());
    }

    @Bean
    public KafkaListenerContainerFactory<ConcurrentMessageListenerContainer<String, String>> kafkaListenerContainerFactory() {
        ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<String, String> listener = new ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<>();
        listener.setConsumerFactory(consumerConfig());
        return listener;
    }
}

Reciever File:

@Service
public class KafkaReciever {

    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(KafkaReciever.class);

    @KafkaListener(topics = "${kafka.topic.name}", group = "${kafka.consumer.group.id}")
    public void recieveData(@Payload Student student, @Header(KafkaHeaders.MESSAGE_KEY) String messageKey) throws Exception{
        LOGGER.info("Data - " + student + " recieved");
    }
}

POST json:

 [{
        "studentId": "Q45678123",
        "firstName": "Anderson",
        "lastName": "John",
        "age": "12",
        "address": {
          "apartment": "apt 123",
          "street": "street Info",
          "state": "state",
          "city": "city",
          "postCode": "12345"
        }
    },
    {
        "studentId": "Q45678123",
        "firstName": "abc",
        "lastName": "xyz",
        "age": "12",
        "address": {
          "apartment": "apt 123",
          "street": "street Info",
          "state": "state",
          "city": "city",
          "postCode": "12345"
        }
    }]

I am getting the following consumer output:

[com.springboot.model.Student@5e40dc31, com.springboot.model.Student@235e68b8]

Can not deserialize instance of com.springboot.model.Student out of START_ARRAY

If using a json deserailizer, you have a list, not a single Student

@Payload List<Student> student

Or if using the string deserailizer, you have a String of JSON and you must parse it manually

receiveData(@Payload String student ... ) { 
    JsonNode data = new ObjectMapper().readTree(student); // for example, but should extract ObjectMapper to a field
}

Regarding your other output, please see How do I print my Java object without getting "SomeType@2f92e0f4"?