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Gunnar Morling commented on KAFKA-3821:
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Hey [~rhauch], [~ewencp] et al., trying to move forward with this issue, I've
created a quick draft PR of what I had in mind: [PR
#5553|https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/5553]. Can you let me know whether
you think that's an acceptable solution for this issue? Thanks!
> Allow Kafka Connect source tasks to produce offset without writing to topics
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> Key: KAFKA-3821
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3821
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: KafkaConnect
> Affects Versions: 0.9.0.1
> Reporter: Randall Hauch
> Priority: Major
> Labels: needs-kip
> Fix For: 2.1.0
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> Provide a way for a {{SourceTask}} implementation to record a new offset for
> a given partition without necessarily writing a source record to a topic.
> Consider a connector task that uses the same offset when producing an unknown
> number of {{SourceRecord}} objects (e.g., it is taking a snapshot of a
> database). Once the task completes those records, the connector wants to
> update the offsets (e.g., the snapshot is complete) but has no more records
> to be written to a topic. With this change, the task could simply supply an
> updated offset.
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