Hussein, You can use MessagePack to send data to Kafka. As long as you can convert an object to a byte array, you can send data to Kafka. For an example, please see step 8 of the producer code section of the quickstart - http://incubator.apache.org/kafka/quickstart.html
HTH, Neha On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > https://github.com/apache/kafka/tree/trunk/clients > > Jun > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Hussein Baghdadi > <hubaghd...@hotmail.com>wrote: > >> >> Which contrib? this one >> https://github.com/apache/kafka/tree/trunk/contrib?Nothing but Hadoop >> producers and consumers. >> Can we send MessagePack http://msgpack.org/ to Kafka? >> Thank you. >> >> > Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:24:00 -0700 >> > Subject: Re: Sending web traffic data to Kafka >> > From: jun...@gmail.com >> > To: kafka-users@incubator.apache.org >> > >> > There are a few non-java clients (mostly producers) in contrib that you >> can >> > try (not exactly sure how up to date each of them is). As for encoding, >> > anything like JSON or avro should be fine. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Jun >> > >> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Hussein Baghdadi < >> hubaghd...@hotmail.com>wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > Hi,I want to send web traffic data to Kafka as events, something >> > > like:<page, timestamp, user-agent ....>And some other usual suspects.1. >> > > Which languages can send events to Kafka (in addition to Java)?2. Any >> guide >> > > how to write an encoder for my previous event structure?Thanks for >> help and >> > > time. >> >>
