Hi Team Before submitting a new KIP I would like to open the discussion regarding an enhancement of Kafka Connect.
Currently, the only way to configure a connector (in distributed mode) is through REST endpoints while creating or updating a connector. It would be nice to have the possibility to specify a configs provider class (as we specify the connector class) in the JSON payload sent over the REST API. This class would be called during the connector creation to complete the configs submitted via REST. The motivations for a such functionality is for example to enforce a configuration for all deployed connectors, to provide default configs or to provide sensitive configs like user/password. I've met these requirements on different projects. Do you think, this feature merits a new KIP ? Thanks, -- Florian HUSSONNOIS
