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JSON Source Connector for Confluent Platform

The Kafka Connect JSON Source connector is used to stream JSON files from an SFTP directory while also converting the data based on the schema supplied in the configuration. If the schema is not supplied in the configuration then the connector can also auto generate the key.schema and value.schema at run time when schema.generation.enabled is true.

To use this connector, use a connector configuration that specifies the name of this connector class in the connector.class configuration property, as shown below:

connector.class=io.confluent.connect.sftp.SftpJsonSourceConnector

JSON Source Connector Example

This example follows the same steps as the Quick Start. Review the Quick Start for help running the Confluent Platform and installing the SFTP connector package.

  1. Generate a JSON dataset using the command below and push it to SFTP server:

    echo $'{"id":1,"first_name":"Roscoe","last_name":"Brentnall","email":"rbrentnall0@mediafire.com","gender":"Male","ip_address":"202.84.142.254","last_login":"2018-02-12T06:26:23Z","account_balance":1450.68,"country":"CZ","favorite_color":"#4eaefa"}\n{"id":2,"first_name":"Gregoire","last_name":"Fentem","email":"gfentem1@nsw.gov.au","gender":"Male","ip_address":"221.159.106.63","last_login":"2015-03-27T00:29:56Z","account_balance":1392.37,"country":"ID","favorite_color":"#e8f686"}' > "json-sftp-source.json"

  2. Create an sftp.properties file with the following contents:

    name=JsonSftp
tasks.max=1
connector.class=io.confluent.connect.sftp.SftpJsonSourceConnector
input.path=/path/to/data
error.path=/path/to/error
finished.path=/path/to/finished
cleanup.policy=NONE
input.file.pattern=json-sftp-source.json
behavior.on.error=IGNORE
sftp.username=username
sftp.password=password
sftp.host=localhost
sftp.port=22
kafka.topic=sftp-json-topic
key.schema={\"name\" : \"com.example.users.UserKey\",\"type\" : \"STRUCT\",\"isOptional\" : false,\"fieldSchemas\" : {\"id\" : {\"type\" : \"INT64\",\"isOptional\" : false}}}
value.schema={\"name\" : \"com.example.users.User\",\"type\" : \"STRUCT\",\"isOptional\" : false,\"fieldSchemas\" : {\"id\" : {\"type\" : \"INT64\",\"isOptional\" : false},\"first_name\" : {\"type\" : \"STRING\",\"isOptional\" : true},\"last_name\" : {\"type\" : \"STRING\",\"isOptional\" : true},\"email\" : {\"type\" : \"STRING\",\"isOptional\" : true},\"gender\" : {\"type\" : \"STRING\",\"isOptional\" : true},\"ip_address\" : {\"type\" : \"STRING\",\"isOptional\" : true},\"last_login\" : {\"type\" : \"STRING\",\"isOptional\" : true},\"account_balance\" : {\"name\" : \"org.apache.kafka.connect.data.Decimal\",\"type\" : \"BYTES\",\"version\" : 1,\"parameters\" : {\"scale\" : \"2\"},\"isOptional\" : true},\"country\" : {\"type\" : \"STRING\",\"isOptional\" : true},\"favorite_color\" : {\"type\" : \"STRING\",\"isOptional\" : true}}}

  3. Load the SFTP JSON Source Connector.

    Caution

    You must include a double dash (--) between the connector name and your flag. For more information, see this post.

    confluent local load JsonSftp -- -d sftp.properties

    Important

    Don’t use the Confluent CLI in production environments.

Configuration Properties

Connector-specific configuration properties are described below.

General

kafka.topic

The Kafka topic to write the data to.

  • Importance: HIGH
  • Type: STRING
batch.size

The number of records that should be returned with each batch.

  • Importance: LOW
  • Type: INT
  • Default Value: 1000
empty.poll.wait.ms

The amount of time to wait if a poll returns an empty list of records.

  • Importance: LOW
  • Type: LONG
  • Default Value: 250
  • Validator: [1,…,9223372036854775807]

Connection

sftp.host

Sftp host to connect with.

  • Type: string
  • Default: localhost
  • Importance: high
sftp.port

Port number of SFTP server.

  • Type: int
  • Default: 22
  • Importance: medium
sftp.username

Username for sftp server.

  • Type: string
  • Default: foo
  • Importance: high
sftp.password

Password for sftp server.

  • Type: string
  • Default: pass
  • Importance: high

Security

tls.private.key

Private key that will be used for public-key authentication.

  • Type: password
  • Default: [hidden]
  • Importance: low
tls.public.key

Public key that will be used to decrypt the private key if the given private key is encrypted.

  • Type: password
  • Default: [hidden]
  • Importance: low
tls.passphrase

Passphrase that will be used to decrypt the private key if the given private key is encrypted.

  • Type: password
  • Default: [hidden]
  • Importance: low
tls.pemfile

Path to pemfile.

  • Type: string
  • Default: “”
  • Importance: low

Proxy

sftp.proxy.url

Proxy url for sftp connection.

  • Type: string
  • Default: “”
  • Importance: low
proxy.username

Proxy username for sftp server if proxy is being used.

  • Type: string
  • Default: null
  • Importance: low
proxy.password

Proxy password for sftp server if proxy is being used.

  • Type: string
  • Default: null
  • Importance: low

File System

input.path

The directory where Kafka Connect reads files that are processed. This directory must exist and be writable by the user running Connect.

  • Importance: HIGH
  • Type: STRING
  • Validator: Absolute path to a sftp directory that exists and is writable.
input.file.pattern

Regular expression to check input file names against. This expression must match the entire filename. The equivalent of Matcher.matches().

  • Importance: HIGH
  • Type: STRING
finished.path

The directory where Connect puts files that are successfully processed. This directory must exist and be writable by the user running Connect.

  • Importance: HIGH
  • Type: STRING
  • Validator: Absolute path to a sftp directory that exists and is writable.
error.path

The directory to place files that have errors. This directory must exist and be writable by the user running Kafka Connect.

  • Importance: HIGH
  • Type: STRING
  • Validator: Absolute path to a sftp directory that exists and is writable.
behavior.on.error

Sets how the connector should behave when error are encountered while processing records. FAIL stops the connector when any error occurs. IGNORE ignores the current file and continues to the next file for processing. LOG after logging the error message, it continues to the next file for processing.

  • Importance: HIGH
  • Type: STRING
  • Default Value: FAIL
  • Validator: Matches: FAIL, IGNORE, LOG
cleanup.policy

Sets how the connector should clean up files that are successfully processed. NONE leaves the files in place. Files left in place may be reprocessed if the connector is restarted. DELETE removes the file from the filesystem. MOVE (the default) moves the file to the finished.path directory.

  • Importance: MEDIUM
  • Type: STRING
  • Default Value: MOVE
  • Validator: Matches: NONE, DELETE, MOVE
file.minimum.age.ms

The amount of time in milliseconds after the file was last written to before the file can be processed.

  • Importance: LOW
  • Type: LONG
  • Default Value: 0
  • Validator: [0,…]
processing.file.extension

Before a file is processed, it is renamed to indicate that it is currently being processed. This setting is appended to the end of the file.

  • Importance: LOW
  • Type: STRING
  • Default Value: .PROCESSING
  • Validator: Matches regex( ^.*..+$ )

Schema

key.schema

The schema for the key written to Kafka.

  • Importance: HIGH
  • Type: STRING
value.schema

The schema for the value written to Kafka.

  • Importance: HIGH
  • Type: STRING

Schema Generation

schema.generation.enabled

Flag to determine if schemas should be dynamically generated. If set to true, key.schema and value.schema can be omitted, but schema.generation.key.name and schema.generation.value.name must be set.

  • Importance: MEDIUM
  • Type: BOOLEAN
  • Default Value: false
schema.generation.key.fields

Field(s) use to build key schema. This is only used during schema generation. If schema.generation.enabled is true and schema.generation.key.fields is set to empty list as [] then key.schema will be of type Struct with empty fields. If schema.generation.enabled is true and schema.generation.key.fields is set to list of field names then the key.schema will be generated by extracting the fields present in the list from value.schema.

  • Importance: MEDIUM
  • Type: LIST
  • Default Value: []
schema.generation.key.name

The name of the generated key schema.

  • Importance: MEDIUM
  • Type: STRING
  • Default Value: defaultkeyschemaname
schema.generation.value.name

The name of the generated value schema.

  • Importance: MEDIUM
  • Type: STRING
  • Default Value: defaultvalueschemaname
timestamp.field

The field in the value schema that contains the parsed timestamp for the record. This field cannot be marked as optional and must be a Timestamp.

  • Importance: MEDIUM
  • Type: STRING
  • Default Value: “”

Timestamps

timestamp.mode

Determines how the connector sets the timestamp for the ConnectRecord. If set to Field, the timestamp is read from a field in the value. This field cannot be optional and must be a Timestamp. Specify the field in timestamp.field. If set to FILE_TIME, the last time the file was modified is used. If set to PROCESS_TIME (the default), the time the record is read is used.

  • Importance: MEDIUM
  • Type: STRING
  • Default Value: PROCESS_TIME
  • Validator: Matches: FIELD, FILE_TIME, PROCESS_TIME
timestamp.field

The field in the value schema that contains the parsed timestamp for the record. This field cannot be marked as optional and must be a Timestamp.

  • Importance: MEDIUM
  • Type: STRING
parser.timestamp.date.formats

The date formats that are expected in the file. This is a list of strings that are used to parse the date fields in order. The most accurate date format should be first in the list. See the Java documentation for more information.

  • Importance: LOW
  • Type: LIST
  • Default Value: [yyyy-MM-dd’T’HH:mm:ss, yyyy-MM-dd’ ‘HH:mm:ss]
parser.timestamp.timezone

The time zone used for all parsed dates.

  • Importance: LOW
  • Type: STRING
  • Default Value: UTC