[KAFKA-3073] KafkaConnect should support regular expression for topics

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.0
• Component/s: KafkaConnect
• Assignee: Jeff Klukas
• Reporter: Gwen Shapira
• Created: 07/Jan/16 00:48
• Updated: 20/Apr/18 15:54
• Resolved: 22/Nov/17 00:01

Description

KafkaConsumer supports both a list of topics or a pattern when subscribing.
KafkaConnect only supports a list of topics, which is not just more of a hassle to configure - it also requires more maintenance.

I suggest adding topics.pattern as a new configuration and letting users choose between 'topics' or 'topics.pattern'.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: KAFKA-3074 Regex sink connector support
• is related to: KAFKA-6806 Unable to validate sink connectors without "topics" component which is not required
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4151
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