Hi Ewen, Thanks for the KIP, I think it will be useful :)
I'm just wondering if we can add support not just for bytes schema, but also for a struct that contains bytes? I'm thinking of the scenario of using a connector to grab BLOBs out of a DB - I think you end up with this structure if you use a JDBC connector and custom query... Maybe even support Maps with generic objects using Java's default serialization? I'm not sure if this is useful. Gwen On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Ewen Cheslack-Postava <e...@confluent.io> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've added a pretty trivial KIP for adding a pass-through Converter for > Kafka Connect, similar to ByteArraySerializer/Deserializer. > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-128%3A+Add+ByteArrayConverter+for+Kafka+Connect > > This wasn't added with the framework originally because the idea was to > deal with structured data for the most part. However, we've seen a couple > of use cases arise as the framework got more traction and I think it makes > sense to provide this out of the box now so people stop reinventing the > wheel (and using a different fully-qualified class name) for each connector > that needs this functionality. > > I imagine this will be a rather uncontroversial addition, so if I don't see > any comments in the next day or two I'll just start the vote thread. > > -Ewen -- Gwen Shapira Product Manager | Confluent 650.450.2760 | @gwenshap Follow us: Twitter | blog
