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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion modules/ROOT/examples/docker-data/source.query.json-string.json
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"neo4j.query.polling-interval": "1s",
"neo4j.query.polling-duration": "5s"
}
}
}
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This will create a Kafka Connect source instance that will send change event messages derived by the provided query over to the `my-topic` topic, using your preferred serialization format.
In Control Center, confirm that the Source connector has been created in the Connect tab, under connect-default.

Generated change event messages in this case will have the following structure:
Generated change event messages in this case will have the following structure, which wraps each field into a dedicated structure which is type safe:

[source,json]
----
{"name": <name>, "surname": <surname>, "timestamp": <timestamp>}
{
"name": {
"type": "S",
"B": null,
"I64": null,
"F64": null,
"S": "<name>",
"BA": null,
"TLD": null,
"TLDT": null,
"TLT": null,
"TZDT": null,
"TOT": null,
"TD": null,
"SP": null,
"LB": null,
"LI64": null,
"LF64": null,
"LS": null,
"LTLD": null,
"LTLDT": null,
"LTLT": null,
"LZDT": null,
"LTOT": null,
"LTD": null,
"LSP": null
},
"surname": {
"type": "S",
"B": null,
"I64": null,
"F64": null,
"S": "<surname>",
"BA": null,
"TLD": null,
"TLDT": null,
"TLT": null,
"TZDT": null,
"TOT": null,
"TD": null,
"SP": null,
"LB": null,
"LI64": null,
"LF64": null,
"LS": null,
"LTLD": null,
"LTLDT": null,
"LTLT": null,
"LZDT": null,
"LTOT": null,
"LTD": null,
"LSP": null
},
"timestamp": {
"type": "I64",
"B": null,
"I64": <timestamp>,
"F64": null,
"S": null,
"BA": null,
"TLD": null,
"TLDT": null,
"TLT": null,
"TZDT": null,
"TOT": null,
"TD": null,
"SP": null,
"LB": null,
"LI64": null,
"LF64": null,
"LS": null,
"LTLD": null,
"LTLDT": null,
"LTLT": null,
"LZDT": null,
"LTOT": null,
"LTD": null,
"LSP": null
}
}
----

While the above serialized form of the change message is type safe, it might make the consumer side deserialization logic quite complex and not desired.
In this case, you can configure `neo4j.payload-mode` setting as `COMPACT` and change event messages will instead be structured as;

[source,json]
----
{"name": "<name>", "surname": "<surname>", "timestamp": <timestamp>}
----

Refer to xref:source/payload-mode.adoc[payload mode] for more information about `neo4j.payload-mode` setting, including its limitations.