[jira] [Commented] (KAFKA-3821) Allow Kafka Connect source tasks to produce offset without writing to topics

["Randall Hauch (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Randall Hauch commented on KAFKA-3821:
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[~criccomini] logged KAFKA-5084, but that is really another situation where the connector would like to provide new offsets without having to produce {{SourceRecord}}. As he says [here|https://confluentcommunity.slack.com/archives/C49L0V3L7/p1492547735471505], the connector sometimes need to tell Kafka Connect:

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i made some progress in my source, but i don’t want to send any of the data
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> Allow Kafka Connect source tasks to produce offset without writing to topics
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>
>                 Key: KAFKA-3821
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-3821
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: KafkaConnect
>    Affects Versions: 0.9.0.1
>            Reporter: Randall Hauch
>              Labels: needs-kip
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> Provide a way for a {{SourceTask}} implementation to record a new offset for a given partition without necessarily writing a source record to a topic.
> Consider a connector task that uses the same offset when producing an unknown number of {{SourceRecord}} objects (e.g., it is taking a snapshot of a database). Once the task completes those records, the connector wants to update the offsets (e.g., the snapshot is complete) but has no more records to be written to a topic. With this change, the task could simply supply an updated offset.



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