Configuring Connectors

The connectors available to Connect may not always suit your needs. Sometimes, it is necessary to provide configuration.

To configure a connector detected by Spin, the SPI org.camunda.connect.spi.ConnectorConfigurator can be implemented. A configurator specifies which classes it can configure. Connect discovers a configurator by employing Java’s service loader mechanism and will then provide it with all connectors that match the specified class (or are a subclass thereof). The concrete configuration options depend on the actual connector. For example, the HTTP based connector can modify the Apache HTTP client that the connector uses.

In order to provide a custom configurator, you have to

• Provide a custom implementation of org.camunda.connect.spi.ConnectorConfigurator
• Add the configurator’s fully qualified classname to a file named META-INF/services/org.camunda.connect.spi.ConnectorConfigurator
• Ensure that the artifact containing the configurator is reachable from Connect’s classloader

Custom Connector

A connector is an implementation of the interface org.camunda.connect.spi.Connector. An implementation of this interface can be registered by implementing the SPI org.camunda.connect.spi.ConnectorProvider. Connect uses the Java platform’s service loader mechanism to lookup provider implementations at runtime.

In order to provide a custom connector, you have to

• Provide a custom implementation of org.camunda.connect.spi.Connector
• Provide a custom implementation of org.camunda.connect.spi.ConnectorProvider
• Add the provider’s fully qualified classname to a file named META-INF/services/org.camunda.connect.spi.ConnectorProvider
• Ensure that the artifact containing the provider is reachable from Connect’s classloader

If you now call org.camunda.connect.Connectors.getAvailableConnectors(), then the custom connector is returned along with the built-in connectors. Furthermore, org.camunda.connect.Connectors.getConnector(String connectorId) can be used to explicity retrieve the connector by a specific provider.