Adding a field to a Kafka Topic
Steps to change the Kafka Topic schema.
Use these steps to write a new field to an existing supported database table column.
Procedure
- In the DataStax Apache Kafka Connector configuration file, add the field-to-column definition. See Mapping kafka topics to database tables.
- Update the configuration with the new settings. See Updating the DataStax Apache Kafka Connector configuration.
- Start the Kafka producer that had the schema change.