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.

1. In the DataStax Apache Kafka Connector configuration file, add the field-to-column definition. See Mapping kafka topics to database tables.
2. Update the configuration with the new settings. See Updating the DataStax Apache Kafka Connector configuration.
3. Start the Kafka producer that had the schema change.