Re: kafka connect(copycat) question

2015-12-10 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
Roman, Agreed, this is definitely a gap in the docs (both Kafka's and Confluent's) right now. The reason it was lower priority for documentation than other items is that we expect there will be relatively few converter implementations, especially compared to the number of converters. Converters

Re: kafka connect(copycat) question

2015-12-08 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
Svante, Just to clarify, the HDFS connector relies on some Avro translation code which is in a separate repository. You need the https://github.com/confluentinc/schema-registry repository built before the kafka-connector-hdfs repository to get that dependency. Confluent has now also released

Re: kafka connect(copycat) question

2015-12-03 Thread Svante Karlsson
Hi, I tried building this today and the problem seems to remain. /svante [INFO] Building kafka-connect-hdfs 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT [INFO] Downloading:

Re: kafka connect(copycat) question

2015-11-16 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
Sorry, there was an out of date reference in the pom.xml, the version on master should build fine now. -Ewen On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Venkatesh Rudraraju < venkatengineer...@gmail.com> wrote: > I tried building copycat-hdfs but its not able to pull dependencies from > maven... > > error

Re: kafka connect(copycat) question

2015-11-14 Thread Venkatesh Rudraraju
I tried building copycat-hdfs but its not able to pull dependencies from maven... error trace : --- Failed to execute goal on project kafka-connect-hdfs: Could not resolve dependencies for project io.confluent:kafka-connect-hdfs:jar:2.0.0-SNAPSHOT: The following artifacts could not

Re: kafka connect(copycat) question

2015-11-12 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
Yes, though it's still awaiting some updates after some renaming and API modifications that happened in Kafka recently. -Ewen On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Venkatesh Rudraraju < venkatengineer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ewen, > > How do I use a HDFSSinkConnector. I see the sink as part of a

kafka connect(copycat) question

2015-11-10 Thread Venkatesh Rudraraju
Hi, I am trying out the new kakfa connect service. version : kafka_2.11-0.9.0.0 mode: standalone I have a conceptual question on the service. Can I just start a sink connector which reads from Kafka and writes to say HDFS ? >From what I have tried, it's expecting a source-connector as well

Re: kafka connect(copycat) question

2015-11-10 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
Hi Venkatesh, If you're using the default settings included in the sample configs, it'll expect JSON data in a special format to support passing schemas along with the data. This is turned on by default because it makes it possible to work with a *lot* more connectors and data storage systems

Re: kafka connect(copycat) question

2015-11-10 Thread Venkatesh Rudraraju
Hi Ewen, Thanks for the explanation. with your suggested setting, I was able to start just a sink connector like below : >* bin/connect-standalone.sh config/connect-standalone.properties config/connect-file-sink.properties* But I have a couple of issues yet, 1) Since I am only testing a simple

Re: kafka connect(copycat) question

2015-11-10 Thread Ewen Cheslack-Postava
Venkatesh, 1. It only works with quotes because the message needs to be parsed as JSON -- a bare string without quotes is not valid JSON. If you're just using a file sink, you can also try the StringConverter, which only supports strings and uses a fixed schema, but is also very easy to use since