Apache Pulsar source connector Use the Apache Pulsar connector to get data from a Pulsar topic. If you want instructions on how to connect to Apache Pulsar as a destination, see Apache Pulsar sink connector in the Connect to a data destination chapter. Features Delivery guarantee At least once Compatibility Pulsar 2.9.x or above Prerequisites If you want to connect to Pulsar using JWT or OAuth2 authentication, you will need the following information before creating the connection. For JWT Authentication: A JSON web token to use for authentication between Decodable and the Pulsar client. For OAuth2 authentication: The Client ID, Client Secret, Token Issuer URL, and in some cases, the Token Audience for the service account that Decodable uses to contact your remote Pulsar service. Where you obtain these values depends on the Apache Pulsar service you are using. See Working with OAuth: StreamNative example for an example on where to find these values in StreamNative. Steps If you want to use the Decodable CLI or API to create the connection, you can refer to the Property Name column for information about what the underlying property names are. The connector name is pulsar. From the Connections page, select the Pulsar Connector and complete the following fields. UI Field Property Name Description Connection Type N/A Select Source for Decodable to read data from a Pulsar topic. Broker Service URL service-url The URL to connect to your Pulsar broker. For example, pulsar+ssl://broker.example.com:6651. Admin Web Service URL admin-url The admin web service URL. For example, https://broker.example.com. Topic topic The name of the Pulsar topic. Authentication Method N/A The authorization method to use when connecting to the Pulsar client. Must be one of the following: JWT OAuth No Authentication Authentication Token token Conditional: Required when performing authentication via JWT. The secret associated with your Pulsar client that contains the JWT token for authentication. If you are using the Decodable CLI, this is the ID of a secret resource in your account. Run decodable secret list to view available secrets or decodable secret --help for help with creating a new secret. Note: For security purposes, Decodable will never display secret values in plaintext. You can manage which users have permissions to create, delete, or modify secrets in the Access Control management view. See Roles, groups, and permissions for more information. OAuth Client ID client-id Conditional: Required when performing authentication via OAuth. The ID of the service-account client used for OAuth2 authentication. OAuth Client Secret client-secret Conditional: Required when performing authentication via OAuth. The secret associated with your Pulsar client. If you are using the Decodable CLI, this is the ID of a secret resource in your account. Run decodable secret list to view available secrets or decodable secret --help for help with creating a new secret. Note: For security purposes, Decodable will never display secret values in plaintext. You can manage which users have permissions to create, delete, or modify secrets in the Access Control management view. See Roles, groups, and permissions for more information. OAuth Token Issuer URL issuer-url Conditional: Required when performing authentication via OAuth. URL of the authentication provider from which Decodable will OAuth access tokens on behalf of the given service-account client. Example: https://auth.example.cloud/ OAuth Token Audience audience An identifier of the resource for which a requested OAuth access token may be used. Example: urn:sn:pulsar:organization:cluster Conditional: Not strictly required by Decodable when performing authentication via OAuth, though Pulsar servers may independently require the property be defined depending on their security requirements. Value Format format The format for data in the Pulsar topic. Must be one of the following: JSON AVRO Debezium (JSON) If you want to send CDC data through this connector, then you must select Debezium (JSON). Partition Key Columns key.fields A list of fields, delimited by semicolons, that comprise the partition key. For example: field1;field2. Partition Key Format key.format Optional. The format used to serialize and deserialize the partition key. Must be one of the following: No Format Optional Raw Avro JSON Partition Key Columns Inclusion Policy value.fields-include Specify whether the partition key columns should be present in the payload values sent to Pulsar. For an example of how the key.fields, key.format, and value.fields-include arguments work together, see the examples in the Key and Value Formats section in the Apache Flink documentation. — scan.startup.mode Specifies where in the topic to start reading data when the connection is first started or after discarding state. latest: Start reading data from the latest available point in the stream. earliest: Start reading data from the earliest available point in the stream. Defaults to latest. This configuration is currently available only through the CLI. — pulsar.reader.receiverQueueSize Size of the Pulsar reader’s receiver queue. A value higher than the default value increases consumer throughput, though at the expense of more memory utilization. Defaults to 1000. This configuration is currently available only through the CLI. Select the stream that you’d like to connect to this connector. Then, select Next. Define the connection’s schema. Decodable can auto-populate the connection’s schema using Pulsar’s schema registry. In most cases, you’ll want to select Schema Registry to automatically populate the connection’s schema. However, if you would like to manually enter the schema, select New Schema or Structured Schema Definition. If you want to auto-populate the connection schema using Pulsar’s schema registry, you’ll also need to provide the name of your Pulsar tenant, the namespace where your topic is, and the version of the schema that you’d like to use. Select Next when you are finished providing defining the connection’s schema. Give the newly created connection a Name and Description and select Save. Working with OAuth: StreamNative example When using the OAuth authentication method, you need to additionally provide the Client ID, Client Secret, Token Issuer URL, and in some cases, the Token Audience for the service account that Decodable uses to contact your remote Pulsar service. The following example walks through how to find these values in StreamNative, but you can use a different Apache Pulsar service of your choosing. Perform the following steps in the StreamNative web console to find the Client ID, Client Secret, and the Token Issuer URL. Select Service Accounts, and download the Key File for the service account that you want to use. Open the key file, and copy the values for the client_id, client_secret, and issuer_url fields. Perform the following steps in the StreamNative web console to find the OAuth audience token. Select Pulsar Clients. Fill out the Pulsar Client Setup form. It does not matter which programming language you select in the StreamNative web console. The OAuth audience token will be returned as a hard-coded variable in Step 5.