KIP-174 — Deprecate and remove internal converter configs in WorkerConfig
Accepted Kafka 2.0 Connect
Deprecates and then removes `internal.key.converter` and `internal.value.converter` from Kafka Connect `WorkerConfig`, hardcoding `JsonConverter` as the only supported internal format. These configs were exposed prematurely before classloader isolation existed; they have caused more operator confusion than flexibility, and no one needs to swap internal converters in practice.
Details
| Author | Umesh |
| Status | Accepted |
| Kafka Version | 2.0 |
| JIRA | KAFKA-5540 |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2017-07-03 |
| Last Modified | 2018-05-22 |
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