Hi, Felix, Currently, we don't have a util to pipe data from a file to a producer. I agree that it's a very convenient tool to have. Could you open a jira for that?
Thanks, Jun On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Felix Giguere Villegas < felix.gigu...@mate1inc.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We are currently evaluating Kafka, so I'm trying to get one of our simple > use case working. I have read the design paper and most of everything else > I > could find about Kafka, but I'm not sure how to set up a producer that > tails > files or that reads from STDIN. > > Do I have to write custom code just for that? It seems like a pretty > simple/common use case, so I would think it already exists out of the box. > > I guess I could pipe a tail command into bin/kafka-producer-shell.sh ?? > > This kind of stuff is relatively easy to set up with Flume, but we like the > persistence and replay capabilities of Kafka, which is why we are trying it > out. > > Thanks in advance for helping out a newb ;) ! > > -- > Felix >
