[jira] [Created] (KAFKA-5827) Allow configuring Kafka sink connectors to start processing records from the end of topics

["Behrang Saeedzadeh (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Behrang Saeedzadeh created KAFKA-5827:
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             Summary: Allow configuring Kafka sink connectors to start processing records from the end of topics
                 Key: KAFKA-5827
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5827
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: KafkaConnect
            Reporter: Behrang Saeedzadeh


As far as I can see, Kafka connectors start exporting data of a topic from its beginning. We have a topic that contains a few million old records that we don't need but we would like to start exporting new records that are added to the topic.

Basically:

* When the connector is started for the first time and it does not have a current offset stored, it should start consuming data from the end of topics
* When the connector is restarted and has a current offset stored somewhere, it should start from that offset




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