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It is proposed to add new configuration is to the SMT org.apache.kafka.connect.transforms.DropHeaders to allow regexp-based matching of heades to be dropped:

Name: headers.pattern

Description:List of regular expressions to match of the headers to be removed.Type: boolean

Default: "$^" (match empty)

Proposed Changes

It is proposed to use regexp-matchers inside the apply method in addition to a set-based contains (existing implementation).

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