Shifting from Java implementation to C implementation

If you were using the Java implementation of the kafka destination and want to shift to its C implementation, the following changes to the configuration file and considerations are necessary.

• Unlike the old one, the new topic() option can not handle templates. It must be a string.

• The template() option has been renamed message().

• The kafka-bootstrap-servers() option has been renamed bootstrap-servers().

• The properties-file() is a Java properties file with options that are similar to, but not identical with, the options in the old, Java implementation’s properties-file(). For more information, click here.

• The sync-send() option has been deprecated. Remove it from the configuration file.

• The client_lib_dir() option has been deprecated. Remove it from the configuration file.

• The old implementation’s option() option has been removed and replaced by the config() option, which has a different syntax.

For more information, see Options of the kafka() destination’s C implementation.