Where to keep the zipped file of kafka connect s3-source connector

Question

I have downloaded the s3-source connector zip file as given in the confluent web page. I am not getting where to place the extracted files. I am getting the following error

Please guide me. To load the connector, Iam using this command -

confluent local load s3-source -- -d /etc/kafka-connect-s3/confluentinc-kafka-connect-s3-source-1.3.2/etc/quickstart-s3-source.properties

Answer 1

I am not getting where to place the extracted files

If you used confluent-hub install, it would put them in the correct place for you.

Otherwise , you can put them whereever, if you update plugin.path in the Connect properties to include the parent directory of the JARs for the connector

Answer 2

Extract the zip file whether its a source connector or sink connector and place the whole folder with all the jars inside of it under: plugin.path which you have set