Re: Kafka connect HDFS conenctor

2016-02-24 Thread Venkatesh Rudraraju
Thanks Ewen. We decided to update our producer side of the application to use schema-registry and post avro messages. Now I am able to store avro messages in HDFS using connect. I have couple more questions : 1) I am using TimeBasedPartitioner and trying to store data in hourly buckets. But the ro

Re: Kafka connect HDFS conenctor

2016-02-23 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
Consuming plain JSON is a bit tricky for something like HDFS because all the output formats expect the data to have a schema. You can read the JSON data with the provided JsonConverter, but it'll be returned without a schema. The HDFS connector will currently fail on this because it expects a fixed

Kafka connect HDFS conenctor

2016-02-17 Thread Venkatesh Rudraraju
Hi, I tried using the HDFS connector sink with kafka-connect and works as described-> http://docs.confluent.io/2.0.0/connect/connect-hdfs/docs/index.html My Scenario : I have plain Json data in a kafka topic. Can I still use HDFS connector sink to read data from kafka-topic and write to HDFS in