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Michael Graff commented on KAFKA-3209: -------------------------------------- We have a use case which is in effect "take a single Kafka input message and produce 1 or more output items" -- I understand people refer to this as a "flatMap" or something like that. Specifically, our use case is to get a chunk formatted like this: Header-1: value1 Header-2: value2 record1 record2 record3 ... records Our transformation is to take some header fields and merge them into a record, then emit that record for all (or some) records in the message. > Support single message transforms in Kafka Connect > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-3209 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3209 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: KafkaConnect > Reporter: Neha Narkhede > > Users should be able to perform light transformations on messages between a > connector and Kafka. This is needed because some transformations must be > performed before the data hits Kafka (e.g. filtering certain types of events > or PII filtering). It's also useful for very light, single-message > modifications that are easier to perform inline with the data import/export. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)