Sink Connector Id Strategy Properties

Overview

Use the following configuration settings to specify how the MongoDB Kafka sink connector should determine the _id value for each document it writes to MongoDB.

For a list of sink connector configuration settings organized by category, see the guide on Sink Connector Configuration Properties.

Settings

Name	Description
document.id.strategy	Type: string Description: The class the connector should use to generate a unique `_id` field. Default: `com.mongodb.kafka.connect.sink.processor.id.strategy.BsonOidStrategy` Accepted Values: An empty string or a fully qualified Java class name
document.id.strategy.overwrite.existing	Type: boolean Description: Whether the connector should overwrite existing values in the `_id` field when it applies the strategy defined by the `document.id.strategy` property. Default: `false` Accepted Values: `true` or `false`
document.id.strategy.uuid.format	Type: string Description: Whether the connector should output the UUID in the `_id` field in string format or in BsonBinary format. Default: `string` Accepted Values: `string` or `binary`
delete.on.null.values	Type: boolean Description: Whether the connector should delete documents when the key value matches a document in MongoDB and the value field is null. This setting applies when you specify an id generation strategy that operates on the key document such as `FullKeyStrategy`, `PartialKeyStrategy`, and `ProvidedInKeyStrategy`. Default: `false` Accepted Values: `true` or `false`

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