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Type:
Improvement
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Status: Open
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Priority:
Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Affects Version/s: 1.12.0, 1.12.1
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: Documentation, Table SQL / Ecosystem
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Labels:None
In the Flink docs, all formats document the "format" property as required. However, this is actually a property of the connector, not the format.
Prior to 1.12 this was only an issue for custom connectors as all of Flink's connectors by convention had a "format" property. With 1.12+, the Kafka connector made the "format" property non-required as users can instead use "value.format". Although being synonyms, this now logically breaks the documentation of the Formats stating that "format" is a required property.