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Kafka Consumer Batch source emits the record from Kafka. It will emit a record based on the schema and format you use, or if no schema or format is specified, the message payload will be emitted. The source will remember the offset it read last run and continue from that offset for the next run. The Kafka batch source supports providing additional Kafka properties for the Kafka consumer, reading from kerberos-enabled Kafka and limiting the number of records read. This plugin uses Kafka 02.106.2 0 java apis.
This source is used whenever you want to read from Kafka. For example, you might want to read messages from Kafka and write them to Amazon S3.
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