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Till Rohrmann commented on FLINK-9461:
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If {{flink-table}} would only contain some interfaces defining the sources,
sinks and operators, then it would not be a big problem. But this is obviously
not the case. The point I'm trying to make is that it feels a bit odd that a
Flink connector depends on a Flink library while it would be so simple to get
rid of it by introducing a dedicated module.
Assume that we might get rid of the Scala dependency in {{flink-runtime}}, then
we could still not remove the Scala suffix from the connectors because they
depend on {{flink-table}}.
> Disentangle flink-connector-kafka from flink-table and flink-json
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> Key: FLINK-9461
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9461
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Build System
> Affects Versions: 1.5.0
> Reporter: Till Rohrmann
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.6.0
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> Currently, the {{flink-connector-kafka}} module has a dependency on
> {{flink-table}} and {{flink-json}}. The reason seems to be that the module
> contains the {{KafkaJsonTableSource}} and {{KafkaJsonTableSink}}. Even though
> the {{flink-table}} and {{flink-json}} dependency are marked as optional, the
> {{flink-connector-kafka}} will still contain the table sources and sinks. I
> think this is not a clean design.
> I would propose to move the table sources and sinks into a dedicated module
> which depends on {{flink-connector-kafka}}. That way we would better separate
> dependencies and could remove {{flink-table}} and {{flink-json}} from
> {{flink-connector-kafka}}.
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