KafkaConnection

brokers (array, required)

The host names of the Kafka brokers

The object is an array with all elements of the type string.

Examples: ["kafka1:9092","kafka2:9092"], ["kafka1:9092","kafka2:9092","kafka3:9092"]

clientType (string, enum)

Configure the connection to be a producer for a consumer. Defaults to producer.

This element must be one of the following enum values:

• producer

• consumer

Default: "producer"

groupId (string)

Only for consumer clients: The group id for the Kafka consumer. It defaults to the id of the Connection resource.

clientId (string)

The client id used when connecting to the broker

Default: "protocol-mapper-kafka"

Example: "connectware_13462"

connectionTimeout (integer)

Time in milliseconds to wait for a successful connection

Default: 1000

requestTimeout (integer)

Time in milliseconds to wait for a successful request

Default: 10000

trustAllCertificates (boolean)

If true, all broker certificates will be accepted, regardless of whether they can be validated or not. Use this option if self-signed server certificates should be accepted, or if there are other reasons which prevent this client to validate the certificates.

Default: false

Examples: true, false

mutualAuthentication (boolean)

If true, a full certificate chain including client certificate is expected to connect properly with validated certificates.

Default: false

Examples: true, false

caCert (string)

The root CA certificate as Base64 encoded PEM file content

clientCert (string)

The device certificate as Base64 encoded PEM CRT file content

clientPrivateKey (string)

The device private key as Base64 encoded PEM CRT file content

sasl (object)

SASL stands for Simple Authentication and Security Layer. With this property you can configure the authentification scheme to be used when contacting the Kafka broker.

Properties of the sasl object:

mechanism (string, enum, required)

The strategy used to carry on authentification

This element must be one of the following enum values:

• plain

• scram-sha-256

• scram-sha-512

username (string, required)

The username used in the authentification procedure

password (string, required)

The password used in the authentification procedure