[FLINK-9461] Disentangle flink-connector-kafka from flink-table and flink-json

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Abandoned
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: Build System
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Till Rohrmann
• Created: 29/May/18 07:45
• Updated: 28/Feb/20 10:56
• Resolved: 28/Feb/20 10:56

Description

Currently, the flink-connector-kafka module has a dependency on flink-table and flink-json. The reason seems to be that the module contains the KafkaJsonTableSource and KafkaJsonTableSink. Even though the flink-table and flink-json dependency are marked as optional, the flink-connector-kafka will still contain the table sources and sinks. I think this is not a clean design.

I would propose to move the table sources and sinks into a dedicated module which depends on flink-connector-kafka. That way we would better separate dependencies and could remove flink-table and flink-json from flink-connector-kafka.

Issue Links

• is blocked by: FLINK-11015 Remove deprecated code for format-specific Kafka table connectors
• is blocked by: FLINK-11118 Refactor and unify rowtime timestamp extractor interface