Hi Ismael, Thank you for your reply. I am happy to have a writeup on this.
Can you think of any other ways to make security protocol pluggable instead of extending ChannelBuilder? On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 at 02:14 Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> wrote: > Hi Tao, > > As you say, security protocols are not currently pluggable. > `ChannelBuilder` is already an interface, but `SecurityProtocol` is an > enum, which makes it hard for users to add additional security protocols. > Changing this would probably require a KIP: > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Kafka+Improvement+Proposals > > Ismael > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 3:15 AM, tao xiao <xiaotao...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Kafka team, > > > > I want to know if I can plug-in my own security protocol to Kafka to > > implement project specific authentication mechanism. The current > supported > > authentication protocols, SASL/GSSAPI and SSL, are not supported in my > > company and we have own security protocol to do authentication. > > > > Is it a good idea to make ChannelBuilder extensible so that I can > implement > > it with my own security channel? > > >
