[FLINK-24051] Make consumer.group-id optional for KafkaSource

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.14.0, 1.12.5, 1.13.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.14.0, 1.13.3, 1.12.8
• Component/s: Connectors / Kafka
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Fabian Paul
• Reporter: Fabian Paul
• Created: 30/Aug/21 08:51
• Updated: 15/Dec/21 01:40
• Resolved: 01/Sep/21 06:47

Description

For most of the users it is not necessary to generate a group-id and the source itself can provide a meaningful group-id during startup.

Issue Links

• is related to: FLINK-23764 add RuntimeContext to SourceReaderContext
• is related to: FLINK-24108 Update kafka documentation in Chinese
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #17052
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #17069
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #17070
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #17071