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