It seems the issue is related to Scala versions. I grabbed from
https://github.com/kevinwright/kafka
and built with
sbt "++2.10.0 package"
I'm able to have my Play app produce messages for Kafka now.
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:32 PM, charlie w <spambait...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to have a Kafka 0.8 producer inside a Play Framework
> controller? (I am new to both Kafka and Play.)
>
> I have managed to get Java code cribbed from the Kafka examples
> (below) to compile and execute within Play, but constructing the
> ProducerConfig object never returns. I am not finding anything in any
> Play log.
>
> I've also tried this using the Scala console producer as a model and
> had the same result
>
> The Kafka console producer and consumer samples are working for me.
>
> Thanks
> Charlie
>
> code:
>
>
> package controllers;
>
> import java.util.Properties;
>
> import kafka.producer.ProducerConfig;
> import kafka.javaapi.producer.Producer;
> import kafka.producer.KeyedMessage;
>
> public class Hello
> {
> public static void hello( String v )
> {
> Properties props = new Properties();
> props.put("zk.connect", "127.0.0.1:2181");
> props.put("serializer.class", "kafka.serializer.StringEncoder");
> props.put("broker.list", "localhost:9092" );
>
> play.Logger.info("create config");
> ProducerConfig config = new ProducerConfig(props);
>
> play.Logger.info("create producer");
> Producer<Integer, String> producer = new Producer<Integer,
> String>(config);
>
> play.Logger.info("yay!");
>
> KeyedMessage msg = new KeyedMessage<Integer,
> String>("test-topic", "Greetings!");
>
> producer.send( msg );
> }
> }
