Schema registry : Schema references

[David-hod]

One of the main features of confluent schema registry is to reference a schema from other topic. schema registry documentation we want to use this feature to manage multiple events on this topic. We can view it on the the kafka ui today (we cannot see the references ), but we cannot create a 'subject' with references which makes us use the cli instead.

This feature is not so hard to implement since we just need to add the references section on the request to schema registry.

POST /subjects/test/versions HTTP/1.1
Host: schemaregistry.example.com
Accept: application/vnd.schemaregistry.v1+json, application/vnd.schemaregistry+json, application/json

{
  "schema":
    "{
       \"type\": \"record\",
       \"name\": \"test\",
       \"fields\":
         [
           {
             \"type\": \"string\",
             \"name\": \"field1\"
           },
           {
             \"type\": \"com.acme.Referenced\",
             \"name\": \"int\"
           }
          ]
     }",
  "schemaType": "AVRO",
  "references": [
    {
       "name": "com.acme.Referenced",
       "subject":  "childSubject",
       "version": 1
    }
  ]
}

[Haarolean]

Hey, thanks for the suggestion. We'll consider implementing this in the future release.

[David-hod]

@Haarolean do you want me to try to create a pull request for it ?

Thanks David

[Haarolean]

@David-hod would be really cool!

[David-hod]

@Haarolean does pull request is by fork or should i have permissions to the repo

[Haarolean]

@David-hod you have to fork the repo

[David-hod]

@Haarolean intellij checkstyle plugin does not work with the checkstyle file you use on this repo, since it is old. It is not easy to do checkstyle manually without intellij. Can you take care for it ?

[Haarolean]

@David-hod

what is old exactly? It should work fine via checkstyle plugin for IDEA (but you have to adjust imports settings manually, these are not affected by the import for some reason).

[paulolimarb]

Hi

Is it possible to know when this feature will be available?

Thank you very much

[Haarolean]

@David-hod hey, any luck?

[David-hod]

@Haarolean i had great luck when doing the backend. Was so close to finish, than my laptop drank lot of water and all my work gone. I need to go over from the beginning.

[Haarolean]

@Haarolean i had great luck when doing the backend. Was so close to finish, than my laptop drank lot of water and all my work gone. I need to go over from the beginning.

I'm so sorry to hear that :( I can suggest using git in it's full force in the future and committing more frequently :) Anyways, if you're willing to do that again, let me know if I should keep you assigned.