It may appear that the JSON representations of the events are much larger than the documents they describe. This is the information that the change event is providing. This schema is specific to the collection. A change event’s value schema is the same in every change event that the connector generates for a particular collection.ĭ is the schema for the overall structure of the payload, where dbserver1 is the connector name, inventory is the database, and customers is the collection. The value’s schema, which describes the structure of the value’s payload.
Descriptions of create event value fields Item It has the structure described by the previous schema field and it contains the actual data for the document that was changed. The second payload field is part of the event value. Typically, this schema contains nested schemas. In other words, the second schema describes the structure of the document that was changed. It specifies the Kafka Connect schema that describes what is in the event value’s payload portion. The second schema field is part of the event value. It has the structure described by the previous schema field and it contains the key for the document that was changed. The first payload field is part of the event key. In other words, the first schema field describes the structure of the key for the document that was changed. It specifies a Kafka Connect schema that describes what is in the event key’s payload portion.
The first schema field is part of the event key. Overview of change event basic content Item