KIP-151 — Expose Connector type in REST API
Accepted Kafka 1.0 ConnectAdmin
Adds a type field (source or sink) and a version field to the Kafka Connect REST API responses for connector plugin listings. The Connect REST API previously returned only connector class names, with no reliable way to determine connector type without brittle class-name heuristics.
Details
| Author | dan norwood |
| Status | Accepted |
| Kafka Version | 1.0 |
| JIRA | KAFKA-4343 |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2017-05-02 |
| Last Modified | 2017-07-28 |
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