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Timo Walther commented on FLINK-9461:
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[~yanghua] The main work on this issue has already been started.
\{{flink-json}} is only used by deprecated code and can be removed once we drop
format specific sources and sinks. I think we can remove `KafkaJsonTableSink`
and `KafkaAvroTableSink` in the next release. Feel free to open a PR for this.
I had a private discussion with [~aljoscha] and [~StephanEwen] about how we
want to deal with \{{flink-table}} dependencies in connectors and formats. We
decided against dedicated \{{flink-table-connectors}} and
\{{flink-table-formats}} modules. Instead we started introducing a lightweight
\{{flink-table-common}} module that currently only formats use but connectors
can use this as well soon. See also the [discussion
here|https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PPo6goW7tOwxmpFuvLSjFnx7BF8IVz0w3dcmPPyqvoY/edit#].
> Disentangle flink-connector-kafka from flink-table and flink-json
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>
> Key: FLINK-9461
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9461
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: Build System
> Affects Versions: 1.5.0
> Reporter: Till Rohrmann
> Assignee: vinoyang
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.8.0
>
>
> Currently, the {{flink-connector-kafka}} module has a dependency on
> {{flink-table}} and {{flink-json}}. The reason seems to be that the module
> contains the {{KafkaJsonTableSource}} and {{KafkaJsonTableSink}}. Even though
> the {{flink-table}} and {{flink-json}} dependency are marked as optional, the
> {{flink-connector-kafka}} will still contain the table sources and sinks. I
> think this is not a clean design.
> I would propose to move the table sources and sinks into a dedicated module
> which depends on {{flink-connector-kafka}}. That way we would better separate
> dependencies and could remove {{flink-table}} and {{flink-json}} from
> {{flink-connector-kafka}}.
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