Jorge Esteban Quilcate Otoya

@AbdelkaderR thanks for opening this PR! Overall, if there are some SMTs using this type, I think it makes sense to add this change. Could you share a bit more...

@aprodhomme-dkt thanks for this proposal. I agree the current sender logic requires a refactor, and the proposed factory pattern fits very well IMO. I do also agree that the customizing...

Hi there! and apologies for the belated response. It's because is the only grant type [1] supported by the Connector. Could you elaborate a bit more on why would you...

@raphaelauv maybe a combination of transforms may get you there -- though not sure the default ones are enough thou. e.g. you may use `ExtractField` + `Cast` to get your...

@1riatsila1 thanks and apologies for the belated response. As I mentioned on #111, falling back to use RetriableException for error handling would require to refactor and break compatibility with the...

@kmurthyhegde @mahavir155 sorry for the lack of response for a long time. Could you confirm if this is still an issue? If it is, could you provide further detail on...

@kolesoffac kafka topic is auto-created when it does not exist. You can create the topic before hand with `replication-factor=3` or if [reconfigure replication using partition reassignment](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#basic_ops_increase_replication_factor)

Thanks for the request @seanyinx! This is an interesting idea. I did a small poc a while ago https://github.com/jeqo/zipkin-storage-kafka-experiments/tree/master/sample-error-trace but could be better to have these extension modules as part...

@adriancole about licensing: IIUC SR clients are Apache licensed https://github.com/confluentinc/schema-registry/blob/master/LICENSE, only SR server is confluent licensed. > Ddoes schema registry have any plan for another format besides avro? If avro...

Thanks @Danny02. Appreciate this contribution. Regarding nested fields, we are on-hold of [KIP-821](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-821%3A+Connect+Transforms+support+for+nested+structures) being implemented, as it should provide a _common_ way to deal with nested fields in SMTs. Though,...