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+/*
+ * Copyright Debezium Authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache Software License version 2.0, available at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ */
+package io.debezium.embedded;
+
+import static org.apache.kafka.clients.CommonClientConfigs.CLIENT_ID_CONFIG;
+
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverter;
+import org.apache.kafka.connect.json.JsonConverterConfig;
+import org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.Converter;
+import org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.FileOffsetBackingStore;
+import org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.KafkaOffsetBackingStore;
+import org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.MemoryOffsetBackingStore;
+import org.apache.kafka.connect.util.SharedTopicAdmin;
+
+/**
+ * An auxilliary class that provides internal Kafka Connect related data structures and operations.
+ * The code are usually snippets from Kafka Connect runtime codebase.
+ *
+ * @author Jiri Pechanec
+ *
+ */
+public class KafkaConnectUtil {
+
+    public static final Converter converterForOffsetStore() {
+        final JsonConverter converter = new JsonConverter();
+        converter.configure(Collections.singletonMap(JsonConverterConfig.SCHEMAS_ENABLE_CONFIG, "false"), true);
+        return converter;
+    }
+
+    public static final FileOffsetBackingStore fileOffsetBackingStore() {
+        return new FileOffsetBackingStore(converterForOffsetStore());
+    }
+
+    public static final MemoryOffsetBackingStore memoryOffsetBackingStore() {
+
+        return new MemoryOffsetBackingStore() {
+
+            @Override
+            public Set<Map<String, Object>> connectorPartitions(String connectorName) {
+                return null;
+            }
+        };
+    }
+
+    public static final KafkaOffsetBackingStore kafkaOffsetBackingStore(Map<String, String> config) {
+        final String clientId = "debezium-server";
+        final Map<String, Object> adminProps = new HashMap<>(config);
+        adminProps.put(CLIENT_ID_CONFIG, clientId + "shared-admin");
+        SharedTopicAdmin sharedAdmin = new SharedTopicAdmin(adminProps);
+
+        return new KafkaOffsetBackingStore(null, () -> clientId, converterForOffsetStore());
+    }
+}