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Status Submitted
Workspace App Connect
Created by Guest
Created on May 22, 2024

Improved kafka avro support

Our specific use case is related to facilitate interaction with serialised Avro on Confluent, but any kind of improvement in that area would be welcome. At the moment almost everything we do to requires custom logic in java compute nodes, turning ACE into a dumb wrapper for java code, which is less than desirable. 

Support for Avro schema in a similar vein to what is available for XSD. Having a direct link to the schema registry would be nice, but honestly, not as important. Based on those, conversion from/to either a new Avro parser or just the regular Json one. And then being able to link a topic to the current schema, so it knows how to serialise/deserialise the message tree. Some support for magic bytes might be required here, but seeing as different vendors have different solutions for them, I would settle for being able to just provide a setting to denote how much has to be trimmed from the front. More fine grained control on the commit when acting as a consumer would be nice, as the node currently commits on propagation and you have to manually build in transactionality through other means. On the schema lifecycle, I don't expect a fully managed solution around this. Honestly, it can already be worked around with a byte stream reader and interpreting the magic bytes and routing, but maybe a slightly more OOTB way of working might be useful. For example, if the consumer node can propagate some info on the magic bytes in the local environment or message properties, that would make life easier. With XSD, generation of java classes with Jaxb is provided out of the box and the runtime comes with Jackson, so something similar for Avro would be greatly appreciated. I assume most of these will already be on their radar, but regardless, these are some of the features we could really use.

Idea priority Medium