Does it support schema registration and setting compatibility ?

[antonmithun-work]

Hi, I'm using the schema_registry_converter library with Protobuf serialization and wanted to confirm:

• Does the library handle schema registration, or is that something I need to do separately via the Schema Registry API?
• Does it manage schema compatibility (e.g., forward/backward compatibility), or do I need to configure that in the Schema Registry?

I assume the library is only for serializing/deserializing data, and schema registration and compatibility are handled separately—please confirm.

Thanks!

[gklijs]

Registration it can do, but only as part of the serialization. I did play with the idea to split this, and have a full schema registry client based on the open api docs. But right now only the parts are there that are strictly related to serializing/deserializing.

[antonmithun-work]

Yes got it, so we can do the registration as part of serialisation if we use the WithSchema strategy. but I decided to use TopicRecordNameStrategy and manage registration with a Terraform module in our pipeline instead.
thank you