Status

Current state: "Under Discussion"Discarded, and superseded by KIP-215: Add topic regex support for Connect sinks

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

JIRA: KAFKA-3073 here

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It is possible to update the interpretation of the existing option "topics" in a way that our users can specify reglar expressions there. But since there are some special characters in the regular expression that can be used in topic names, eg. "." and "-",  we need some workaround. Also this aproach has some effects on existing users. 

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