Status

Current state: Under Discussion Adopted & Implemented in 0.10.0.0

Discussion thread: here [Change the link from the KIP proposal email archive to your own email thread]

JIRA: here

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This is purely an addition, so the change is almost entirely described by the Public Interfaces section. Responses will be a JSON array of containing fully qualified class names, e.g.

[ 
  { "class": "org.apache.kafka.connect.file.FileStreamSourceConnector" },
  { "class": "org.apache.kafka.connect.file.FileStreamSinkConnector" }
]

The class names are wrapped in an object and specified in the field "class". This allows room for extending the returned content in the future. A few connectors that are included with Kafka but are intended for testing will be specifically excluded:

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