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Status
Current state: Under Discussion
Discussion thread: here
JIRA: here
Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).
Motivation
Connect has a REST endpoint for Workers, which today have resources for managing "plugins" (class `ConnectorPluginsResource`) and "connectors" (class `ConnectorsResource`). The `plugins` resource is particularly useful to query the Connect cluster which connectors it has loaded to its plugin path ("GET /connector-pluings" endpoint). In reality, Connectors are just one type of plugin: Other types include Simple Message Transformations (SMTs), Converters, HeaderConverters, ConfigProviders, and RestExtensions (loaded by the "DelegatingClassLoader").
Since SMTs are a popular feature, and the current way to know which are loaded is to read the logs. In many cases, logs may be cleaned and a long-running server will have no way to conveniently reporting loaded SMTs. Only GET requests will be in scope.
This KIP will add HTTP endpoints for Transformations, Converters, HeaderConverters, ConfigProviders, and ConnectRestExtensions to Connect RestServers.
Public Interfaces
The new endpoints are in bold below:
/connector-plugins
get:
summary: Lists available Connector plugins
...
...
/connector-plugins/{connectorType}/config/validate
put:
summary: Validate the supplied connector config
...
...
/plugins
get:
summary: Returns plugin descriptions of all types
....
/plugins/{pluginType}:
get:
summary: Returns plugin descriptions of the given type
parameters:
-in: path
name: pluginType
schema:
type: string
required: true
description: pluginType can be one of Connector, Converter, HeaderConverter, Transformation, ConfigProvider, ConnectRestExtension
....
Return types for 200OK responses will be same schemas as existing return types for existing endpoint "GET /connector-plugins".
Proposed Changes
The new endpoints are described in the API Spec above.
The proposal is to implement them on a new "PluginsResource" analogous to the existing "ConnectorPluginsResource", and using the ConnectorPluginsResource's access to a Herder instance, by using Herder.plugins(), analogous to existing ConnectorPluginsResource.getConnectorPlugins().
Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan
This is a simple addition, so no compatibility or migration issues. Existing APIs are intentionally left unaltered for simplicity.
We will need to update the docs.
Rejected Alternatives
Limiting scope of KIP to just SMTs
The scope could be limited to just adding HTTP Endpoints for just SMTs, which have the most pressing need. However, any design extending the current API to include SMTs would be designed to be elegantly extensible, and then most of the work to just include the other Plugin types is already done.
Updating existing endpoint for "GET /connector-plugins/" to include all plugins, as its name suggests
This strategy would break compatibility, and there are suitable alternatives without breaking changes.
Add implementation on existing ConnectorsPluginsResource
This idea is good, too, but leaned towards a new class to keep the naming very precise.