Kai Waehner demonstrates building a user-defined function for Kafka Streams:
As you can see, the full implementation is just a few lines of Java code. In general, you need to implement the logic between receiving input and returning output of the UDF in the evaluate()method. You also need to implement exception handling (e.g. invalid input arguments) where applicable. The init() method is empty in this case, but could initialise any required object instances.
Note that this UDF has state: dateFormat can be null or already initialized. However, no worries. You do not have to manage the scope as Kafka Streams (and therefore KSQL) threads are independent of each other. So this won’t cause any issues.
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