Schema Registry Decode

Automatically decodes and validates messages with schemas from a Confluent Schema Registry service.

Common

# Common config fields, showing default values
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schema_registry_decode:
  url: "" # No default (required)

Advanced

# All config fields, showing default values
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schema_registry_decode:
  avro_raw_json: false
  url: "" # No default (required)
  oauth:
    enabled: false
    consumer_key: ""
    consumer_secret: ""
    access_token: ""
    access_token_secret: ""
  basic_auth:
    enabled: false
    username: ""
    password: ""
  jwt:
    enabled: false
    private_key_file: ""
    signing_method: ""
    claims: {}
    headers: {}
  tls:
    skip_cert_verify: false
    enable_renegotiation: false
    root_cas: ""
    root_cas_file: ""
    client_certs: []

Decodes messages automatically from a schema stored within a Confluent Schema Registry service by extracting a schema ID from the message and obtaining the associated schema from the registry. If a message fails to match against the schema then it will remain unchanged and the error can be caught using error handling methods.

Avro, Protobuf and Json schemas are supported, all are capable of expanding from schema references.

Avro JSON Format

This processor creates documents formatted as Avro JSON when decoding with Avro schemas. In this format the value of a union is encoded in JSON as follows:

• if its type is null, then it is encoded as a JSON null;
• otherwise it is encoded as a JSON object with one name/value pair whose name is the type’s name and whose value is the recursively encoded value. For Avro’s named types (record, fixed or enum) the user-specified name is used, for other types the type name is used.

For example, the union schema ["null","string","Foo"], where Foo is a record name, would encode:

• null as null;
• the string "a" as {"string": "a"}; and
• a Foo instance as {"Foo": {...}}, where {...} indicates the JSON encoding of a Foo instance.

However, it is possible to instead create documents in standard/raw JSON format by setting the field avro_raw_json to true.

Protobuf Format

This processor decodes protobuf messages to JSON documents, you can read more about JSON mapping of protobuf messages here.

Fields

avro_raw_json

Whether Avro messages should be decoded into normal JSON (“json that meets the expectations of regular internet json”) rather than Avro JSON. If true the schema returned from the subject should be decoded as standard json instead of as avro json. There is a comment in goavro, the underlining library used for avro serialization, that explains in more detail the difference between the standard json and avro json.

Type: bool
Default: false

url

The base URL of the schema registry service.

Type: string

oauth

Allows you to specify open authentication via OAuth version 1.

Type: object

oauth.enabled

Whether to use OAuth version 1 in requests.

Type: bool
Default: false

oauth.consumer_key

A value used to identify the client to the service provider.

Type: string
Default: ""

oauth.consumer_secret

A secret used to establish ownership of the consumer key.

Type: string
Default: ""

oauth.access_token

A value used to gain access to the protected resources on behalf of the user.

Type: string
Default: ""

oauth.access_token_secret

A secret provided in order to establish ownership of a given access token.

Type: string
Default: ""

basic_auth

Allows you to specify basic authentication.

Type: object

basic_auth.enabled

Whether to use basic authentication in requests.

Type: bool
Default: false

basic_auth.username

A username to authenticate as.

Type: string
Default: ""

basic_auth.password

A password to authenticate with.

Type: string
Default: ""

jwt

Allows you to specify JWT authentication.

Type: object

jwt.enabled

Whether to use JWT authentication in requests.

Type: bool
Default: false

jwt.private_key_file

A file with the PEM encoded via PKCS1 or PKCS8 as private key.

Type: string
Default: ""

jwt.signing_method

A method used to sign the token such as RS256, RS384, RS512 or EdDSA.

Type: string
Default: ""

jwt.claims

A value used to identify the claims that issued the JWT.

Type: object
Default: {}

jwt.headers

Add optional key/value headers to the JWT.

Type: object
Default: {}

tls

Custom TLS settings can be used to override system defaults.

Type: object

tls.skip_cert_verify

Whether to skip server side certificate verification.

Type: bool
Default: false

tls.enable_renegotiation

Whether to allow the remote server to repeatedly request renegotiation. Enable this option if you’re seeing the error message local error: tls: no renegotiation.

Type: bool
Default: false

tls.root_cas

An optional root certificate authority to use. This is a string, representing a certificate chain from the parent trusted root certificate, to possible intermediate signing certificates, to the host certificate.

Type: string
Default: ""

# Examples

root_cas: |-
  -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
  ...
  -----END CERTIFICATE-----  

tls.root_cas_file

An optional path of a root certificate authority file to use. This is a file, often with a .pem extension, containing a certificate chain from the parent trusted root certificate, to possible intermediate signing certificates, to the host certificate.

Type: string
Default: ""

# Examples

root_cas_file: ./root_cas.pem

tls.client_certs

A list of client certificates to use. For each certificate either the fields cert and key, or cert_file and key_file should be specified, but not both.

Type: array
Default: []

# Examples

client_certs:
  - cert: foo
    key: bar

client_certs:
  - cert_file: ./example.pem
    key_file: ./example.key

tls.client_certs[].cert

A plain text certificate to use.

Type: string
Default: ""

tls.client_certs[].key

A plain text certificate key to use.

Type: string
Default: ""

tls.client_certs[].cert_file

The path of a certificate to use.

Type: string
Default: ""

tls.client_certs[].key_file

The path of a certificate key to use.

Type: string
Default: ""

tls.client_certs[].password

A plain text password for when the private key is password encrypted in PKCS#1 or PKCS#8 format. The obsolete pbeWithMD5AndDES-CBC algorithm is not supported for the PKCS#8 format. Warning: Since it does not authenticate the ciphertext, it is vulnerable to padding oracle attacks that can let an attacker recover the plaintext.

Type: string
Default: ""

# Example

password: foo