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Advanced Properties

The Developer tool displays the advanced properties for Kafka targets in the Input transformation in the

Write

view.

The following table describes the advanced properties that you configure for Kafka targets:

Property	Description
Operation Type	Specifies the type of data object operation. This is a read-only property.
Metadata Fetch Timeout in milliseconds	The time after which the metadata is not fetched.
Batch Flush Time in milliseconds	The interval after which the data is published to the target.
Batch Flush Size in bytes	The batch size of the events after which the data is written to the target.
Producer Configuration Properties	The configuration properties for the producer. If the Kafka data object is writing data to a Kafka cluster that is configured for Kerberos authentication, include the following property: security.protocol=SASL_PLAINTEXT,sasl.kerberos.service.name=kafka,sasl.mechanism=GSSAPI

For more information about Kafka broker properties, see http://kafka.apache.org/082/documentation.html.