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Status Under review
Workspace StreamSets
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 23, 2024

SST Kafka Producer "Send Message Keys" key field to be sent as json format

Product - StreamSets Transformer for Spark
Version - 5.6.1

  • Customer is looking to send the Kafka Producer "Send Message Keys" key field to be sent as json format. They are using Transformer and want to pass Key Field in Kafka destination. 
  • Ideally if the incoming json record has a field value let's say {"srcSysInstId": "GRP"} and Key Field is given as srcSysInstId then the message key is generated as key:"GRP".
  • Customer requires the key to be generated as srcSysInstId:"{"srcSysInstId": "GRP"}"
  • This could be achieved using StreamSets Data Collector. However, there is no processor or configuration in Kafka stage in Transformer to achieve this requirement. (I am attaching screenshots of my test)
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