KIP-440 — Extend Connect Converter to support headers
Accepted Kafka 2.4 Connect
Extends the Connect Converter interface with header-aware serialize/deserialize methods that receive the Kafka record headers alongside the value. Converters previously had no access to headers, making it impossible to encode schema metadata (e.g., schema registry IDs) in headers rather than embedding them in the value payload.
Details
| Author | Yaroslav Tkachenko |
| Status | Accepted |
| Kafka Version | 2.4 |
| JIRA | KAFKA-7273 |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2019-03-12 |
| Last Modified | 2019-09-25 |
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