Robin Moffatt • 5/8/2019

When a Kafka Connect converter is not a _converter_

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This technical article clarifies the function of converters in Apache Kafka Connect. Using a hands-on example with a file source connector, it shows that raw JSON strings from a source are not automatically converted to structured Avro messages. The post explains when and how to properly use converters like the JsonConverter to handle data serialization in a Kafka pipeline.

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