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I am configuring my connector using properties/json files, I am trying to add a timestamp column containing the kafka timestamp when it read the message from source connector without any success.

I have tried to add transforms, but it's always null and my sink connector "big query" it return me an error

Failed to update table schema

I did put these configurations in bigquery connector properties

transforms=InsertField
transforms.InsertField.timestamp.field=fieldtime
transforms.InsertField.type=org.apache.kafka.connect.transforms.InsertField$Value

My source Config Sap connector

 "name": "sap",
 "config": 
 "connector.class": "com.sap.kafka.connect.source.hana.HANASourceConnector",
 "tasks.max": "10",
 "topics": "mytopic",
 "connection.url": "jdbc:sap://IP:30015/",
 "connection.user": "user",
 "connection.password": "pass",
 "group.id":"589f5ff5-1c43-46f4-bdd3-66884d61m185",
 "mytopic.table.name": ""schema"."mytable"" 
 

My sink Connector BigQuery

name=bigconnect
connector.class=com.wepay.kafka.connect.bigquery.BigQuerySinkConnector
tasks.max=1

sanitizeTopics=true

autoCreateTables=true
autoUpdateSchemas=true

schemaRetriever=com.wepay.kafka.connect.bigquery.schemaregistry.schemaretriever.SchemaRegistrySchemaRetriever
schemaRegistryLocation=http://localhost:8081

bufferSize=100000
maxWriteSize=10000
tableWriteWait=1000

project=kafka-test-217517
topics=mytopic
datasets=.*=sap_dataset
keyfile=/opt/bgaccess.json
transforms=InsertField
transforms.InsertField.timestamp.field=fieldtime 
transforms.InsertField.type=org.apache.kafka.connect.transforms.InsertField$Value

I would guess your error is coming from BigQuery, not Kafka Connect.

For example, start a Connect Console Consumer in standalone mode, you would see messages like

Struct...,fieldtime=Fri Nov 16 07:38:19 UTC 2018

Tested with connect-standalone ./connect-standalone.properties ./connect-console-sink.properties

I have an input topic with Avro data... Update your own settings accordingly

connect-standalone.properties

bootstrap.servers=kafka:9092

key.converter=io.confluent.connect.avro.AvroConverter
key.converter.schema.registry.url=http://schema-registry:8081
key.converter.schemas.enable=true

value.converter=io.confluent.connect.avro.AvroConverter
value.converter.schema.registry.url=http://schema-registry:8081
value.converter.schemas.enable=true

offset.storage.file.filename=/tmp/connect.offsets
offset.flush.interval.ms=10000

plugin.path=/usr/share/java

connect-console-sink.properties

name=local-console-sink
connector.class=org.apache.kafka.connect.file.FileStreamSinkConnector
tasks.max=1
topics=input-topic

transforms=InsertField
transforms.InsertField.timestamp.field=fieldtime
transforms.InsertField.type=org.apache.kafka.connect.transforms.InsertField$Value

OLD ANSWER
I think i reached to understand the problem behind

First of all you can't use the transform InsertField in any Source Connector because the Timestamp value for the msg is assigned at writing time into the topic so it's not something the connector can already know,

for JDBC connector there is this ticket
https://github.com/confluentinc/kafka-connect-jdbc/issues/311

and in sap source connector is not working as well.

Second BigQuery connector has a bug that doesn't allow the usage of InsertField to add the timestamp to every table as mentioned here

https://github.com/wepay/kafka-connect-bigquery/issues/125#issuecomment-439102994

So if you want use bigquery as your output the only solution right now is to manually edit the schema of each table to add the column before loading the cink connector

UPDATE 2018-12-03
The final solution to always add the message timestamp in SINK connector. Let's assume you want add the timestamp to EVERY table of sink connector

in your SOURCE CONNECTOR put this configuration

"transforms":"InsertField"
"transforms.InsertField.timestamp.field":"fieldtime", 
"transforms.InsertField.type":"org.apache.kafka.connect.transforms.InsertField$Value"

This will add a column name called "fieldtime" to every source tables

in your SINK CONNECTOR put those configuration

"transforms":"InsertField,DropField",
"transforms.DropField.type":"org.apache.kafka.connect.transforms.ReplaceField$Value",
"transforms.DropField.blacklist":"fieldtime",
"transforms.InsertSource.timestamp.field":"kafka_timestamp",
"transforms.InsertField.timestamp.field":"fieldtime",
"transforms.InsertField.type":"org.apache.kafka.connect.transforms.InsertField$Value"

this will virtually remove the column fieldtime and add it again with the timestamp of the message

This solution will automatically add the column with the right value without any addition operation