[BEAM-7029] Support KafkaIO to be configured externally for use with other SDKs

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: P2
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.13.0
• Component/s: cross-language, io-java-kafka, runner-flink, sdk-py-core
• Assignee: Maximilian Michels
• Reporter: Maximilian Michels
• Created: 08/Apr/19 14:58
• Updated: 24/Jul/20 19:52
• Resolved: 26/Apr/19 10:03

Description

As of BEAM-6730, we can externally configure existing transforms from SDKs. We should add more useful transforms then just GenerateSequence.

KafkaIO is a good candidate.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8251
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8322