Asynchronous APIs, like Kafka, have a special way of working with requests because of their nature. For asynchronous APIs, you publish a message to a channel on the broker and do not wait for a response. Instead, you subscribe to the channel to retrieve messages sent to it.
Thus, a request and a response are basically two operations (publishing and subscription respectively) on the same channel. Both operations are configured through the API Connection test step:
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