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Currently there exists a MaskField SMT but that would completely remove the value by setting it to an equivalent null value. One problem with this would be that you’d not be able to know in the case of say a password going through the mask transform it would become "" which could mean that no password was present in the message, or it was removed. However this hash transformer would remove this ambiguity if that makes sense. The proposed hash functions would be MD5, SHA1, SHA256. which are all supported via MessageDigest.

Public Interfaces

One new class connect/transforms/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/transforms/Hash.java and a helper class connect/transforms/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/transforms/util/Hex.java are proposed additions. No modifications required to existing interfaces.

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