Re: Exposing additional metadata in Kafka Connect schema parameters

2018-03-06 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
I can only speak to my view on it, but I view logical types as truly generic. The point is that they can be handled as the underlying type safely, processed as such as needed, but if the logical type is properly preserved they can properly translate through as the more "complicated" type. To me, t

Exposing additional metadata in Kafka Connect schema parameters

2018-03-06 Thread Gunnar Morling
Hi, A user of the Debezium CDC Kafka Connect connectors has asked whether we could provide information about the original source type of captured table columns. Usually the type info we provide by using the Kafka Connect types and some custom semantic types is good enough. But there are some case