Hi, Currently all the patch does is take input from stdin. Can you help me understand what you are looking for?
What kind of plugin are you trying to write? -Jay On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Bao Thai Ngo <baothai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jay, > > Does the patch already support log rotation (file rolling)? > > Also, I wonder if there is any documentation about how to write a plug-in > for Kafka. > > Thanks, > ~Thai > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
