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I have produced following data on topic named SENSOR_STATUS_DETAILS in json:

1001
{
  "sensorid": 1001,
  "status": "CONNECTED",
  "lastconnectedtime": "2020-05-31 22:31:54"
}
1002
{
  "sensorid": 1002,
  "status": "CONNECTED",
  "lastconnectedtime": "2020-05-31 22:33:37"
}

I am trying to make a table from it as:

CREATE TABLE STATUS_IB_TABLE (ROWKEY INT KEY,
  sensorid INTEGER,
  status VARCHAR,
  lastconnectedtime STRING)
WITH (TIMESTAMP='lastconnectedtime', TIMESTAMP_FORMAT='yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss', KAFKA_TOPIC='SENSOR_STATUS_DETAILS', VALUE_FORMAT='JSON', KEY='sensorid');

The rowkey ksqlDB is making is as follows:

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I want the rowkey to be sensorid.... I don't know whats happening

please help me on this.

thanks in advance!!

PS:

Confluent Platform version: 5.5

bismi
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The issue here is that the data being produced to the Kafka topic SENSOR_STATUS_DETAILS has a STRING key, not an INT key.

If you take the STRING "1001" it just happens to serialize to the same number of bytes as an INT. If you deserialize those same bytes as an INT you get the number 825241649.

You have two options:

  1. Change how you are producing the data so that you are producing a serialized 32-bit integer as the Kafka message's key and continue to import as ROWKEY INT KEY, or

  2. Change your CREATE TABLE statement to have a STRING key:

    CREATE TABLE STATUS_IB_TABLE ( ROWKEY STRING KEY, // <-- string key sensorid STRING, // <-- matching type here. status VARCHAR, lastconnectedtime STRING ) WITH (<as above>);

The first option would likely result in slightly better performance

Andrew Coates
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  • First off thank you very much @AndrewCoates, the 2nd Option worked... I am using REST Proxy program to produce data on topic.... I have posted the code in my follow up question: [**Kafka producing message key as STRING even though the REST program has INT?**](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62152765/kafka-producing-message-key-as-string-even-though-the-rest-program-has-int) Please have a look at it and help me solve the problem... thanks once again.... – bismi Jun 02 '20 at 13:05