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<p>The File Source Connector is used to pull messages from files in a directory and persist the messages
to a Pulsar topic.</p>
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<tr><th>Name</th><th>Required</th><th>Default</th><th>Description</th></tr>
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<tr><td>inputDirectory</td><td><code>true</code></td><td><code>null</code></td><td>The input directory from which to pull files.</td></tr>
<tr><td>recurse</td><td><code>false</code></td><td><code>true</code></td><td>Indicates whether or not to pull files from sub-directories.</td></tr>
<tr><td>keepFile</td><td><code>false</code></td><td><code>false</code></td><td>If true, the file is not deleted after it has been processed and causes the file to be picked up continually.</td></tr>
<tr><td>fileFilter</td><td><code>false</code></td><td><code>[^\\.].*</code></td><td>Only files whose names match the given regular expression will be picked up.</td></tr>
<tr><td>pathFilter</td><td><code>false</code></td><td><code>null</code></td><td>When 'recurse' property is true, then only sub-directories whose path matches the given regular expression will be scanned.</td></tr>
<tr><td>minimumFileAge</td><td><code>false</code></td><td><code>0</code></td><td>The minimum age that a file must be in order to be processed; any file younger than this amount of time (according to last modification date) will be ignored.</td></tr>
<tr><td>maximumFileAge</td><td><code>false</code></td><td><code>Long.MAX_VALUE</code></td><td>The maximum age that a file must be in order to be processed; any file older than this amount of time (according to last modification date) will be ignored.</td></tr>
<tr><td>minimumSize</td><td><code>false</code></td><td><code>1</code></td><td>The minimum size (in bytes) that a file must be in order to be processed.</td></tr>
<tr><td>maximumSize</td><td><code>false</code></td><td><code>Double.MAX_VALUE</code></td><td>The maximum size (in bytes) that a file can be in order to be processed.</td></tr>
<tr><td>ignoreHiddenFiles</td><td><code>false</code></td><td><code>true</code></td><td>Indicates whether or not hidden files should be ignored or not.</td></tr>
<tr><td>pollingInterval</td><td><code>false</code></td><td><code>10000</code></td><td>Indicates how long to wait before performing a directory listing.</td></tr>
<tr><td>numWorkers</td><td><code>false</code></td><td><code>1</code></td><td>The number of worker threads that will be processing the files. This allows you to process a larger number of files concurrently. However, setting this to a value greater than 1 will result in the data from multiple files being &quot;intermingled&quot; in the target topic.</td></tr>
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