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Fabian Hueske commented on FLINK-8538: -------------------------------------- Regarding the options: * Option 1: This was my initial idea. But Timo is right, we would tie the format to the Table API which is not a good choice, IMO. * Option 2: I don't think this will work. What if a schema contains two NUMBER types? * Option 3: How would this help? We would have a custom number type that nobody can properly handle. I think the best approach to support JSON Schema would be to always return BigDecimal types. > Add a Kafka table source factory with JSON format support > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-8538 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8538 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: Table API & SQL > Reporter: Timo Walther > Assignee: Xingcan Cui > Priority: Major > > Similar to CSVTableSourceFactory a Kafka table source factory for JSON should > be added. This issue includes improving the existing JSON descriptor with > validation that can be used for other connectors as well. It is up for > discussion if we want to split the KafkaJsonTableSource into connector and > format such that we can reuse the format for other table sources as well. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)