Micah,
Sure, we'd be happy to commit a patch that removes this restriction.
In practice, for most folks its a bit simpler to generate the config file
in whatever deployment system they are using than to start the standalone
server separately and make an HTTP request to trigger creation of the
con
I'm curious if there was an intentional reason that Kafka Connect
standalone requires a connector properties on startup?[1]
ConnectDistributed only requires the worker properties. ConnectStandalone
however requires the worker properties and at least one connector
properties. Since connectors can