Hi Jay, Thanks for your reply.
I agree that we can not add all the clients/tools available in ecosystem page to Kafka repo itself. But we feel REST Interface is different from other clients/tools. Since any language that can work with HTTP can easily integrate with this interface, Having an "official" REST interface helps user community. This also helps us to integrate well with external management and provisioning tools. Apache Kafka release with Java clients + REST interface is sufficient for most of the user deployments/requirements. This helps users to deal with less number of distributions/builds. Thanks, Manikumar On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 4:24 AM, Jay Kreps <j...@confluent.io> wrote: > Hey guys, > > There's already a REST interface maintained as a separate project--it's > open source and apache licensed and actively maintained ( > https://github.com/confluentinc/kafka-rest). What is wrong with that? You > mentioned that there was some compatibility concern, but compatibility has > to do with the consumer protocol guarantees not the repo the code is in, > right? Not sure that concern makes sense. > > We could argue for adding pretty much anything and everything in the > ecosystem page in Kafka itself but I'm not sure that would make the project > more agile. > > -Jay > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 12:04 AM, Manikumar <manikumar.re...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Kafka Devs, > > > > I created KIP-80 to add Kafka REST Server to Kafka Repository. > > > > There are already open-source alternatives are available. But we would > > like to add REST server that > > many users ask for under Apache Kafka repo. Many data Infra tools comes > up > > with Rest Interface. > > It is useful to have inbuilt Rest API support for Produce, Consume > messages > > and admin interface for > > integrating with external management and provisioning tools.This will > also > > allow the maintenance of > > REST server and adding new features makes it easy because apache > community. > > > > The KIP wiki is the following: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP- > > 80%3A+Kafka+Rest+Server > > > > Your comments and feedback are welcome. > > > > Thanks, > > Manikumar > > >
