Changed the MySQL connector to use comma-separated lists of regular expressions for the database
and table whitelist/blacklists. Literals are still accepted and will match fully-qualified table names,
although the '.' character used as a delimiter is also a special character in regular expressions and
therefore may need to be escaped with a double backslash ('\\') to more carefully match fully-qualified
table names.
Added several new configuration properties for the MySQL connector that instruct it to hide,
truncate, and/or mask certain columns. The properties' values are all lists of regular expressions
or literal fully-qualified column names. For example, the following configuration property:
column.blacklist=server.users.picture,server.users.other
will cause the connector to leave out of change event messages for the `server.users` table those
fields that correspond to the `picture` and `others` columns. This capability can be used to
This capability can be used to prevent dissemination of sensitive information in the change event
stream.
An alternative to blacklisting is masking. The following configuration property:
column.mask.with.10.chars=server\\.users\\.(\\w*email)
will cause the connector to mask in the change event messages for the `server.users` table
all values for columns whose name ends in `email`. The values will be replaced in this case with
a constant string of 10 asterisk ('*') characters, even when the email value is null.
This capability can also be used to prevent dissemination of sensitive information in the change event
stream.
Another option is to truncate string values for specific columns. The following configuration
property:
column.truncate.to.120.chars=server[.]users[.](description|biography)
will cause the connector to truncate to at most 120 characters the values of the `description` and
`biography` columns in the change event messages for the `server.users` table. Although this example
used a limit of 120 characters, any positive length can be specified; separate properties should
be used when different lengths are required. Note how the '.' delimiter in the fully-qualified names
is escaped since that same character is a special character in regular expressions. This capability
can be used to reduce the size of change event messages.
Drop table/view statements that involve more than one table generate one event for each table/view. Previously, each of those statements had the original multi-table/view statement. Now, each event has a statement that applies to only that table (generated from the original with all the same clauses).
The previous change did not correctly capture the statements for a `RENAME TO` that renamed multiple tables, so fixed the code so that it generates a single `RENAME TO` for each table rename.
Refactored the mechanism by which components can listen to the activities of a DDL parser. The new approach
should be significantly more flexible for additional types of DDL events while making it easier to maintain
backward compatibility. It also will enable passing event-specific information on each DDL event.
There is no point in sending a record that contains a null key and null value. While this may not be likely for insert or update cases (since at least the value should not be null), it is possible when a row is deleted (meaning the record value will be null) but the table has no primary/unique key (meaning the record key will be null).
Corrects a bug where a deleted row was written to Kafka in the same as an insert, making them indistinguishable. Now, a deleted row is written with the row's primary/unique key as the record key, and a null record value. Note that if the row has no primary/unique key, no record is written to Kafka.
Depending upon how the source MySQL database is configured, its binlog might not contain all the history for the database. In particular, it might not have the CREATE TABLE statements for some tables, which are then "unknown" to the connector. When the connector reads the binlog and comes across a change event for a row in one of those "unknown" tables, it previously resulted in a NPE. With this change, the condition results in a warning message in the log, and all subsequent change events on that table will be skipped.
