[KAFKA-3920] Add Schema source connector to Kafka Connect

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.10.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.1.0
• Component/s: connect
• Assignee: Liquan Pei
• Reporter: Liquan Pei
• Reviewer: Ewen Cheslack-Postava
• Created: 29/Jun/16 23:45
• Updated: 08/Jul/16 17:57
• Resolved: 08/Jul/16 17:57

Description

Many sink connectors needs to validate schema compatibility during system tests and thus needs a source connector that provides capability to send data to Kafka with multiple schemas.

The schema source connector is also useful to validate delivery guarantees.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1574