[GitHub] [kafka] cwtrex commented on pull request #7965: KAFKA-9436: New Kafka Connect SMT for plainText => Struct(or Map)

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cwtrex commented on pull request #7965:
URL: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/7965#issuecomment-991924921


   I am confused by this statement: "that KIP hasn't been created"  KIP 678?
   https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP+678%3A+New+Kafka+Connect+SMT+for+plainText+%3D%3E+Struct%28or+Map%29+with+Regex
   
   As for the suggestion of not adding any more SMT, I am just a lowly user who is grateful for everyone's time developing this, but I can tell you that as far as third party SMT's go, I haven't found anything to provides this functionality.  Additionally, looking for third party SMT's has proven painful.  If it is decided not to create any more, I would hope that some kind of directory to other solutions is created.
   
   Use case for this SMT:
   I currently have an application that can generate a JSON object, but for some stupid reason it has an unconfigurable behavior where it puts a timestamp in front of the object breaking any ability to work with it as a normal JSON object.  This SMT would resolve that by allowing an avenue to make it a proper object again.
   
   Again, all work on this is much appreciated.  I hope this SMT is able to continue.  Meanwhile, I am no coder, but I am going to try to see what I can do about piecing things together and trying to use this as my current resolution to the above issue in its current state.


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