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Confluent Kafka Data Object Overview Properties

You can use the Developer tool to view the overview properties for Confluent Kafka messages in the

Overview

view.

The overview properties include general properties, object properties, and column properties that apply to the Confluent Kafka data object.

The following table describes the general properties that you configure for Confluent Kafka data object:

Property	Description
Name	Name of the Confluent Kafka data object.
Description	Description of the Confluent Kafka data object.
Connection	Name of the Confluent Kafka connection.

The following table describes the objects properties that you configure for Confluent Kafka data object:

Property	Description
Name	Name of the topic or topic pattern of the Confluent Kafka data object.
Description	Description of the Confluent Kafka data object.
Native Name	Native name of Confluent Kafka data object.
Path Information	Type and name of the topic or topic pattern of the Confluent Kafka data object.

The following table describes the column properties that you configure for Confluent Kafka data object:

Property	Description
Name	Name of the Confluent Kafka data object.
Native Name	Native name of the Confluent Kafka data object.
Type	Native data type of the Confluent Kafka data object.
Precision	Maximum number of significant digits for numeric data types, or the maximum number of characters for string data types.
Scale	Scale of the data type.
Description	Description of the Confluent Kafka data object.