Subfield Naming in Topic Schema for 'record' Data Types

[andyecoh]

Hi Hue team – my team uses Hue to run FlinkSQL queries on our Pulsar topics, and some of the protobuf messages on our topics have instances of record data types. For example, we have topics that look like this when I drill into them in the left panel in Hue:

my_topic:

• my_record_field (row)
• my_bigint_field (bigint)
• my_string_field (string)

I am wondering how complicated it would be to be able to view subfields from record types in this same view. To be able to see something like:

my_topic:

• my_record_field.my_subfield_1 (double)
• my_record_field.my_subfield_2 (int)
• my_bigint_field (bigint)
• my_string_field (string)

Has this been discussed previously? Or have others implemented workarounds for sub-messages in tables/topics? Thanks!

[andyecoh]

This is still relevant. @romainr I see you're a community contributor – do you know any codeowners who would be able to help me out with this question? Thanks!

[bjornalm]

Hi @andyecoh, thanks for engaging and sorry for the very late reply. We are working on getting our community process back on track. I'm gonna start by turning this issue into a question in our discussions forum and see if anyone there can help out.