Konstantine Karantasis created KAFKA-5204: ---------------------------------------------
Summary: Connect needs to validate Connector type during instantiation Key: KAFKA-5204 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5204 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Bug Components: KafkaConnect Affects Versions: 0.10.2.0 Reporter: Konstantine Karantasis Assignee: Konstantine Karantasis Fix For: 0.11.0.0, 0.10.2.1 Currently Connect will accept to instantiate connectors that extend the {{Connector}} abstract class but not one of its subclasses, {{SourceConnector}} or {{SinkConnector}}. However, in distributed mode as well as in REST, Connect assumes in a few places that there are only two types of connectors, sinks or sources. Based on this assumption it checks the type dynamically, and if it is not a sink it treats it as a source (by constructing the corresponding configs). A connector that implements only the {{Connector}} abstract class does not fit into this classification. Therefore a validation needs to take place early, during the instantiation of the {{Connector}} object. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)