Thanks for filing that. Piping tail into producer-shell will also work, although the producer-shell is only on a per-broker basis. It would be good to have a high-level producer shell.
Joel On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Felix Giguere Villegas <felix.gigu...@mate1inc.com> wrote: > 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 >> > >> >
