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Kafka Storage Plugin, message headers support

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java, kafka
Domain
stream-processing

Research direction

Start by locating the Kafka storage plugin and its existing message metadata fields, then trace how Kafka records become queryable. Confirm the representation expected for kafkaHeaders and add coverage for messages with headers; done means headers can be selected alongside the key, value, offset, and partition.

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Description

enhancement

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Now you can select many info from Kafka message like key, value, offset, partition and so on. But no possibility to select headers of Kafka message.

Describe the solution you'd like
Want additional metadata field something like kafkaHeaders, which will contain Kafka message headers

Dominant language
Java
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Merged PRs (30d)
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