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JIRA: TBD KAFKA-6890

Motivation

KAFKA-2798 (0.9.0.0) introduces capabilities for each source connector and sink connector to inherit their client configurations from the worker properties. Within the worker properties, any configuration that has a prefix of "producer." or "consumer." are applied to all source connectors and sink connectors respectively. The intent of the original change was to introduce a namespaced set of configurations to isolate the settings for different components, but it leaves users with a great deal of inflexibility on the connector level, as all worker source/sink tasks are forced to exhibit those same set of properties.

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