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Ports Properties

Ports properties for a physical data object include port names and port attributes such as data type and precision.

The following table describes the ports properties that you configure for Kafka broker sources:

Property	Description
Name	The name of the resource.
Type	The native data type of the resource.
Precision	The maximum number of significant digits for numeric data types, or the maximum number of characters for string data types.
Scale	The scale of the data type.
Description	The description of the resource.