I added a patch for this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-130
Felix, if you are still interested in this, let me know if it works for you. -Jay 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 > > > > > >