MASES.KNetConnect 3.0.3

title: Kafka™ Connect SDK of .NET suite for Apache Kafka™ _description: Describes how to use Kafka™ Connect SDK of .NET suite for Apache Kafka™

KNet: KNet Connect SDK

Create a new connector based on KNet Connect SDK

To start to use KNet Connect SDK and write a connector in C# the following steps can be used:

1. Install the available templates following the template usage article
2. Execute one the following commands:

• Sink connector:

  dotnet new knetConnectSink
  

• Source connector:

  dotnet new knetConnectSource
  

3. Update the code to define the needed behavior.

Execution

The connector can be used from a JVM hosted runtime and from a .NET hosted runtime. For an overview of configuration see Connect SDK

JVM hosted runtime

To use the connector from a JVM hosted runtime follow the instructions available at https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#connect and https://kafka.apache.org/quickstart#quickstart_kafkaconnect.

.NET hosted runtime

KNet Connect .NET hosted runtime is available in two different formats:

• dotnet tool hosted on NuGet: check https://www.nuget.org/packages/MASES.KNetConnect/ and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/global-tools for installation deep instructions.
• Docker image hosted on GitHub or Docker Hub: follow instruction within the page and general instruction on https://docs.docker.com

Usage

To use the .NET hosted runtime Connect interface (KNetConnect) runs a command like the following:

• dotnet tool

knetconnect -s connect-standalone.properties specific-connector.properties

knetconnect -d connect-distributed.properties

  reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\knetconnect.exe" /v MitigationOptions /t REG_BINARY /d "0000000000000000000000000000002000" /f

• Docker image

docker run ghcr.io/masesgroup/knetconnect -s connect-standalone.properties specific-connector.properties

docker run masesgroup/knetconnect -s connect-standalone.properties specific-connector.properties

docker run ghcr.io/masesgroup/knetconnect -d connect-distributed.properties

docker run masesgroup/knetconnect -d connect-distributed.properties

Command line switch available

knetconnect accepts the following command-line switch to identify its behavior:

• d: starts a distributed version of Connector defined in the file identified from the subsequent parameter
• s: starts a standalone version of Connector defined in the file identified from the subsequent parameter
• k: starts a KNet version (Distributed or Standalone) accepting environment variables names containing the data associated to the parameters expected from the stanard version
• other parameters in sequence are:
  • Apache Kafka™ Connect configuration file
  • KNet Connector configuration file
  • or in case of k switch is used the parameters are the environemnt variables containing the configuration data in the following form:
    • key and value separated with =
    • key-value pair separated with ||
    • an example is key1=value1||key2=value2||key3