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Discussion thread: here [Change the link from the KIP proposal email archive to your own email thread]
JIRA: here KAFKA-12301 [Change the link from KAFKA-1 to your own ticket]
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Enums are used throughout the Kafka codebase and are heavily utilized in the Kafka Connect ecosystem. Supporting parsing and validation of enum values would provide a better user experience by utilizing error messages that have a clear corrective action. For example take a typo while configuring security.protocol
throws the following error message.
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