[PLC4X-35] Implement a Kafka Connect adapter for PLC4X

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Labels: easy-fix easyfix low-hanging-fruit newbie
• Assignee: Andrey Skorikov
• Reporter: Christofer Dutz
• Created: 25/Jun/18 13:44
• Updated: 21/Oct/19 08:21
• Resolved: 21/Oct/19 08:21

Description

Besides having support to implement applications using PLC4X with Apache Edgent and Apache Cammel, another big use case would be to have a Kafka Connect adapter to connect PLC4X and Kafka directly without having to go the extra mile with an Edgent application.

It seems there is documentation out there that could help implementing this:

https://docs.confluent.io/current/connect/devguide.html

I guess what we would have to do, is implement a source to read PLC data into a Kafka Stream and a sink to write information to a PLC.