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Guidelines for writing a processor

These are processors you'd write yourself in cases the Built-in ones don't meet your needs.

How to write one​

Thanks to our Web Assembly (Wasm) processor you can start writing processors in any language that can be compiled to Web Assembly. As a start, Conduit already provides a conduit-processor-sdk that will let you write a processor in Go.

Where to put them​

By default, standalone processors are expected to be found in a folder named processors alongside of your pipelines or standalone connectors:

│ # Conduit binary
├── conduit
│ # Folder with pipeline configurations (yaml files)
├── pipelines
│ # Folder with standalone connectors (binary files)
├── connectors
│ # Folder with standalone processors (wasm files)
└── processors

However, in case you need to reference processors in a different location, you could use the -processors.path flag when running Conduit:

./conduit -processors.path /my-custom-processors-path

Using the conduit-processor-sdk​

Assuming you use our conduit-processor-sdk, this is how a processor plugin written in Go could look like. In the following example, we're going to be adding a processed field to each record processed by our pipeline:

//go:build wasm

package main

import (
    "context"

    "github.com/conduitio/conduit-commons/opencdc"
    sdk "github.com/conduitio/conduit-processor-sdk"
)

func main() {
    sdk.Run(sdk.NewProcessorFunc(
        sdk.Specification{Name: "simple-processor", Version: "v1.0.0"},
        func(ctx context.Context, record opencdc.Record) (opencdc.Record, error) {
            record.Payload.After.(opencdc.StructuredData)["processed"] = true
            return record, nil
        },
    ))

After that, you'd need to compile it, and locate its .wasm file into the desired processors directory as previously mentioned:

GOARCH=wasm GOOS=wasip1 go build -o simple-processor.wasm main.go

Using it in your pipeline​

As mentioned in our Getting Started page, in order to use a processor in your pipeline, you need to update its configuration file and reference it accordingly:

version: 2.2
pipelines:
  - id: example-pipeline
    connectors:
    # define source and destination connectors
    # ...
    processors:
      - id: add-processed-field
        plugin: standalone:simple-processor

When running your pipeline again, you should expect seeing a new processed field on every record processed.

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If you end up writing a standalone processor you'd like to share with the community, please let us know! We'd love to hear from you by:

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