Issue Installing Debezium Oracle Plugin via RemoteURLPlugins in Confluent Operator

Kafka Connect Self-Managed Connectors
1

Hello,
When deploying a Kafka Connect cluster using Confluent Operator and specifying a Debezium Oracle connector through RemoteURLPlugins, the plugin does not appear in /connector-plugins.
when I use locationType: confluentHub in my yaml file I find this as a result:

{"ConfluentHubPlugins":[{"Name":"confluentinc/kafka-connect-jdbc:10.7.4","ExtraArgs":""},{"Name":"confluentinc/kafka-connect-oracle-cdc:2.14.9","ExtraArgs":""}],"RemoteURLPlugins":null}

and when I change it to be locationType: url It sees the “Debezium” but ConfluentHubPlugins becomes null.

I’m asking, can’t I use 2 different locationType in the same file?

Thanks,

2

hey @0xbakry
welcome :slight_smile:

did you check the pods log?
could you share your config?

best,
michael

3

Hello @mmuehlbeyer ,
Thank you for your response.

I checked the pods but found nothing.
here’s my config yaml:

    build:
      type: onDemand  # This will trigger the on-demand build process
      onDemand:
        plugins:
          confluentHub:
          - name: kafka-connect-jdbc
            owner: confluentinc
            version: 10.7.4
          - name: kafka-connect-oracle-cdc
            owner: confluentinc
            version: 2.14.9
          locationType: confluentHub # <-- Correctly place locationType here  
          url:
          - archivePath: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/debezium/debezium-connector-oracle/3.2.0.Final/debezium-connector-oracle-3.2.0.Final-plugin.zip
            checksum: 773f50183fabba0ebbcf31b637b548c4d8b3e922e20945e23f70af3d43c7a3e0f177995fab1f1989776cc74efabff1d9f35860b7598bbd583a949edea4b087d8
            name: debezium-connector-oracle

Thanks,

4

if you go for confluenthub

the config should like the example below

5

Dear @mmuehlbeyer,
This’s what I’m doing.
in the example you sent it uses only one locationType: confluentHub, so my question is: Can I use both confluentHub and url in the same file? is this applicable to install plugins from confluentHub and externURL at the same time?

Thanks,

6

hey @0xbakry

according to the api locationtype is deprecated.
from my understanding and according to the api you could go with both
confluenthub and url

7

It’s not deprecated in the version we are using.
If I can use both of them, so why null value assigned to one of them when we try to use both?

Thanks,

8

as said I’m not sure how it exactly behaves/works here
just an educated out of the current API

a good point might be to ask here:

or as a workaround build a custom image with all the needed plugins