Bump - I know this is not a complicated proposal, but if you have any
inputs, please share.
TIA,
Daniel

Dániel Urbán <urb.dani...@gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2024. szept. 13.,
P, 16:54):

> Hi Viktor,
> Thanks for your comments. Technically, yes, a policy subclass can be used
> to intentionally misconfigure the heartbeats topic name. Mind you, this
> still does not disable the replication of the heartbeats topics, simply the
> Connector will not be able to those topics.
>
> VS1. Only in connector mode. Dedicated mode does not allow multiple
> MirrorSourceConnector instances in a single flow, so the issue is not
> present.
> VS2. I assume you mean MirrorSourceConnectors instead of heartbeat
> connectors. As mentioned in the alternatives section, the KIP-1016
> configuration could be used, but again, it still does not disable the
> replication, just "misconfigures" the connector to not be able to find the
> heartbeats topics. It can be a workaround to the issue described in the
> motivation, but I consider it to be more like a hack than a proper
> workaround.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
> Viktor Somogyi-Vass <viktor.somo...@cloudera.com.invalid> ezt írta
> (időpont: 2024. szept. 13., P, 16:41):
>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> As you describe the case, I think it could be a good idea potentially to
>> add this, however we have to note that customers can achieve this behavior
>> today by subclassing the default policy. This is more cumbersome though
>> than flipping a boolean though, perhaps we could add this to the rejected
>> alternatives.
>>
>> Some questions:
>> VS1. Does this problem exist in both deployment cases (dedicated vs
>> connector modes)?
>> VS2. Regarding KIP-1016: wouldn't it help if given that KIP, one deployed
>> multiple heartbeat connectors with different names and compatible filters?
>> If one could specify the heartbeat topic name for only the given
>> connector,
>> then it would ignore the others (but maybe there is a mistake in my
>> thinking).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Viktor
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 4:26 PM Dániel Urbán <urb.dani...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi everyone,
>> > I'd like to kick off the discussion of a small improvement in the
>> > MirrorSourceConnector:
>> >
>> >
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-1089%3A+Allow+disabling+heartbeats+replication+in+MirrorSourceConnector
>> > The change would be fairly simple, and enables some more advanced
>> use-cases
>> > of the Connector.
>> > TIA,
>> > Daniel
>> >
>>
>

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