FAQ

When I try to compile I get an error about a missing SNAPSHOT dependency.

The error looks something like this:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project kafka-connect-elasticsearch: Could not resolve dependencies for project
io.confluent:kafka-connect-elasticsearch:jar:3.1.0-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact 
org.apache.kafka:connect-api:jar:0.10.1.0-SNAPSHOT in confluent (http://packages.confluent.io/maven/) -> [Help 1]

During development of the Elasticsearch connector we sometimes use a SNAPSHOT version of Kafka and other libraries in order to build and test against new features. However, the public Confluent Maven repository only contains release versions, not SNAPSHOT builds. If you want to build a development version, you may need to build and install these dependencies to your local Maven repository in order to build the connector:

• Kafka - clone https://github.com/apache/kafka/ and build with ./gradlew installAll
• Common library - clone https://github.com/confluentinc/common and build with mvn install

Alternatively, you can build an official release tag or, until the first official release of this connector, we also are providing a branch that targets an existing release of Kafka.