Add support for SASL/SCRAM

[winter98]

Hi,

Do you intend to implement SASL_SSL (particularly SASL_SCRAM) connectivity ?

Thanks.

[jlandersen]

Hi

I'd like to support SASL_SSL. The extension is based on https://github.com/SOHU-Co/kafka-node, which currently only supports the PLAIN mechanism. I am a contributor and could look into SCRAM when possible, but for now PLAIN is the more likely one to be supported.
I'll see if I can get it in for next version in the next few weeks.

[winter98]

Would love SASL_SCRAM...

[winter98]

But thank you very much

[jlandersen]

@winter98 0.7.0 was just pushed which adds SASL/PLAIN. I'll keep this open and track of it and put in SCRAM when it becomes available in dependencies.

[rsun-thoughtworks]

Thanks, appreciate it.

[fbricon]

SASL/SCRAM should be doable (as well as OAUTHBEARER) once the extension uses kafkajs (see #10) : https://kafka.js.org/docs/configuration#a-name-sasl-a-sasl

[fbricon]

@angelozerr if you want to test SASL/SCRAM auth, you can create a free account on https://www.cloudkarafka.com/plans.html

[fbricon]

I did a really quick'n dirty test to implement SASL/SCRAM

and it worked (tested against a https://www.cloudkarafka.com/ cluster) :

Unfortunately, I can't seem to be able to produce records on that cloudkarafka topic (Error: Not authorized to access topics: [Topic authorization failed]). I don't know whether it's something I missed in my changes or if it's some sort of cluster limitation)

[fbricon]

Anyone interested in seeing SCRAM support, can test PR #67.

Please download the vscode-kafka 0.11.0 build for that PR and follow these instructions to install the vsix file in vscode. Feedback is most welcome!