Andrea Cosentino

This is because of the fact we are now basing the connectors on the Kamelets catalog.

On this @valdar is the expert

We work on this project in our spare time, we don't have an ETA to answer question and you're pushing a bit too much. This is not a commercial support...

As far as I remember this is the only way of transforming directly, other than that you'll need to write your own SMT: https://camel.apache.org/camel-kafka-connector/4.0.x/reference/transformers/index.html

An example is a full java class name. For example "org.apache.camel.Message" or "java.lang.String"

Write an SMT for converting the json to avro and use that in your configuration. I don't have time this week to support you more than this and I think...

> Being able to save in parquet format would be very nice as it is one of the most used file formats in data lakes. You can do that by...

https://camel.apache.org/camel-kafka-connector/4.0.x/user-guide/aggregation.html

You need to add a bean because otherwise Camel don't know how to aggregate.

The main problem is just that Kamelets are not exclusively for Kafka Connect Runtime