Github user uce commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2069#discussion_r66606860
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flink-streaming-connectors/flink-connector-kafka-base/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kafka/KafkaJsonTableSource.java
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+package org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka;
+
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeinfo.TypeInformation;
+import org.apache.flink.api.table.sources.StreamTableSource;
+import org.apache.flink.streaming.util.serialization.DeserializationSchema;
+import
org.apache.flink.streaming.util.serialization.JsonRowDeserializationSchema;
+
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+/**
+ * A version-agnostic Kafka JSON {@link StreamTableSource}.
+ *
+ * <p>The version-specific Kafka consumers need to extend this class and
+ * override {@link #getKafkaConsumer(String, Properties,
DeserializationSchema)}}.
+ *
+ * <p>The field names are used to parse the JSON file and so are the types.
+ */
+public abstract class KafkaJsonTableSource extends KafkaTableSource {
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Maybe. ð What do you have in mind? Users can also use the generic
KafkaTableSource with their own row deserialization schema. Maybe that's more
flexible. What do you think?
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