Upgraded from Kafka 0.9.0.1 to Kafka 0.10.0. The only required change was to override the `Connector.config()` method, which returns `null` or a `ConfigDef` instance that contains detailed metadata for each of the configuration fields, including supporting recommended values and marking fields as not visible (e.g., if they don't make sense given other configuration field values). This can be used by user interfaces to data-drive the configuration of a connector. Also, the default validation logic of the Connector implementations uses a `Validator` that is pretty restrictive in its functionality.
Debezium already had a fairly decent and simple `Configuration` framework. After several attempts to try and merge these concepts, reconciling the two validation mechanisms was very complicated and involved a lot of changes. It was easier to simply continue Debezium-specific validation and to override the `Connector.validate(...)` method to use Debezium's `Configuration`-based validation. Connector-based validation logic includes determining recommended values, so Debezium's `Field` class (used to define each configuration property) was enhanced with a new `Recommender` class that is similar to Kafka's.
Additional integration tests were added to verify that the `ConfigDef` result is acceptable and that the new connector validation logic works as expected, including getting recommended values for some fields (e.g., database names, table/collection names) from MySQL and MongoDB by connecting and dynamically reading the values. This was done in a way that remains backward compatible with the regular expression formats of these fields, but in a user interface that uses the `ConfigDef` mechanism the user can simply select the databases and table/collection identifiers.
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