Connect is not only for sources that support reading from a specific point. But unless the source system is tracking state for you, you connector's likely to miss information in that source system if the connector stops. This is probably okay in quite a few systems, so its good if you're fine with that.
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 6:57 PM, meow licous <meowliciou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > I am trying to write a source connector from Apache Artemis into Kafka. > Here `Source Partition` doesn't make much sense since you can't keep track > of position in Artemis. You either `Ack` or `Nack` a message. > > is connect only for sources that support reading from a specific point like > a file position, dbtimestamp ect? > > Is is possible to copy these messages into kafka in a lossless manner. > > - Meow >
