Hi :) Thanks for the reply :) . I have created KAFKA-130<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-130> .
I'm not sure I have respected the proper standard for JIRA issues. Please let me know if I haven't. -- Felix On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > >
