Configuration Reference for Datagen Source Connector for Confluent Platform

This page includes the connector configuration properties for the Kafka Connect Datagen Source connector. For sample configurations you can use, see the Datagen sample configurations. For information about value converters and other configuration properties, see Configuring Connectors.

Basic Configuration Properties

The following list includes the basic connector configuration properties for the Kafka Connect Datagen Source connector.

Range of backoff times for each retry using the default configuration

Parameter	Description	Default
kafka.topic	The topic to write to.	“”
max.interval	The maximum interval between messages (ms).	500
iterations	The number of messages to send from each task, or -1 for unlimited.	-1
schema.string	The literal JSON-encoded Avro schema to use. This can’t be set with schema.filename or quickstart.	“”
schema.filename	The filename of schema to use. This can’t be set with schema.string or quickstart.	“”
schema.keyfield	The name of field to use as the message key.	“”
quickstart	The name of quickstart to use. This can’t be set with schema.string or schema.filename.	“”