How do you develop connectors in the repo workspace?

[tisonkun]

That said, working with Pulsar connectors is based on Pulsar functions, and in conf/functions_worker.yml we configure:

connectorsDirectory: ./connectors

However, the bundled connectors are under ./distribution/io/target/apache-pulsar-io-connectors-<version>-bin.

It causes when I run code snippets from our docs like:

./bin/pulsar-admin sources create --name generator --destinationTopicName generator_test --source-type data-generator

It complains:

Invalid source type 'data-generator' -- Available sources are: []

Creating a directory under the root path and copying connectors' NAR files works, but it's a bit clumsy:

cp distribution/io/target/apache-pulsar-io-connectors-2.11.0-SNAPSHOT-bin/*.nar connectors 

I want to learn how you develop connectors in the repo workspace. Is there some way better than that described above?

cc @merlimat @lhotari

[asafm]

@nlu90 might know?

[nlu90]

Some thoughts:

1. update the functions_worker.yml's connectorsDirectory to point to your dev directory
2. create a soft link to your directory