We should make a new nar and processor name and drop ine of the older nars.

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 6:33 AM Bryan Bende <bbe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Gotcha. Yes, we can obviously change the version of the client lib, but
> it's misleading because they were named "2_0" because they use the "2_0"
> client, and now that won't be true anymore, but if others agree with this
> then maybe it's fine.
>
> Maybe more of a question for the dev list.
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 9:28 AM <christophe.mon...@post.ch> wrote:
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>> Yes: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9815
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>> > we'd have to be sure the latest 2.x client also works well with all
>> previous 2.x versions back to 2.0
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>> I think kafka-clients should make sure of that.
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>> The processors could still be named 2_0, it’s only the client jar that
>> should be the latest 2.x version.
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>> Specifically
>> https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/master/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-kafka-bundle/pom.xml#L31
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>> Regards
>>
>> Chris
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>> *From:* Bryan Bende <bbe...@gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Friday, 12. June 2020 15:18
>> *To:* users@nifi.apache.org
>> *Subject:* Re: kafka-clients version
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>> Usually we make a new version of the processors when something changes
>> that causes a previous version of the client to not work well with the
>> newer broker (i.e. 0.9 client with 0.10 broker, in the older versions).
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>> The latest processors are named with "2_0" so not sure if it makes sense
>> to upgrade the client lib and then the name is no longer accurate, plus
>> we'd have to be sure the latest 2.x client also works well with all
>> previous 2.x versions back to 2.0.
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>> The other option is to make a new copy of the processor like "2_5" or
>> whatever the latest version is, but I think we only want to do this if it's
>> really necessary. AFAIK the 2.0 client works with the latest 2.x brokers.
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>> Is there any specific issue you are looking to solve by using the latest
>> client?
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>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 8:20 AM <christophe.mon...@post.ch> wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> Any reason why nifi-kafka-bundle is still bundled with
>> kafka-clients-2.0.0.jar and not a newer version?
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>> Regards
>>
>> Chris
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