C0urante commented on a change in pull request #11775:
URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/11775#discussion_r819939810



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File path: 
connect/api/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/connect/source/SourceConnector.java
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@@ -28,4 +30,46 @@
     protected SourceConnectorContext context() {
         return (SourceConnectorContext) context;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Signals whether the connector supports exactly-once delivery guarantees 
with a proposed configuration.
+     * Developers can assume that worker-level exactly-once support is enabled 
when this method is invoked.
+     *
+     * <p>For backwards compatibility, the default implementation will return 
{@code null}, but connector developers are
+     * strongly encouraged to override this method to return a non-null value 
such as
+     * {@link ExactlyOnceSupport#SUPPORTED SUPPORTED} or {@link 
ExactlyOnceSupport#UNSUPPORTED UNSUPPORTED}.
+     *
+     * <p>Similar to {@link #validate(Map) validate}, this method may be 
called by the runtime before the
+     * {@link #start(Map) start} method is invoked when the connector will be 
run with exactly-once support.
+     *
+     * @param connectorConfig the configuration that will be used for the 
connector.
+     * @return {@link ExactlyOnceSupport#SUPPORTED} if the connector can 
provide exactly-once support with the given
+     * configuration, and {@link ExactlyOnceSupport#UNSUPPORTED} if it cannot. 
If this method is overridden by a
+     * connector, should not be {@code null}, but if {@code null}, it will be 
assumed that the connector cannot provide
+     * exactly-once guarantees.
+     * @since 3.2
+     */
+    public ExactlyOnceSupport exactlyOnceSupport(Map<String, String> 
connectorConfig) {
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Signals whether the connector implementation is capable of defining the 
transaction boundaries for a
+     * connector with the given configuration. This method is called before 
{@link #start(Map)}, only when the
+     * runtime supports exactly-once and the connector configuration includes 
{@code transaction.boundary=connector}.
+     *
+     * <p>This method need not be implemented if the connector implementation 
does not support defining
+     * transaction boundaries.
+     *
+     * @param connectorConfig the configuration that will be used for the 
connector
+     * @return {@link ConnectorTransactionBoundaries#SUPPORTED} if the 
connector will define its own transaction boundaries,
+     * or {@link ConnectorTransactionBoundaries#UNSUPPORTED} otherwise. If 
this method is overridden by a
+     * connector, should not be {@code null}, but if {@code null}, it will be 
assumed that the connector cannot define its own
+     * transaction boundaries.

Review comment:
       I think it's reasonable to completely disallow `null` here since the 
default implementation returns a non-null value and there's no need to allow 
for the possibility that the connector might support custom transaction 
boundaries even if it doesn't return `SUPPORTED`. This differs from the case 
with `SourceConnector::exactlyOnceSupport`, where it's possible that a 
connector might already be capable of providing exactly-once guarantees as-is 
without having to implement any new framework APIs.
   
   Thoughts on prohibiting `null` as a return value and both documenting that 
fact here and adding a preflight validation step to enforce it?




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