Hi Su, It is as simple as piping to it: some_program_outputting_the_stuff | kafkacat -b mybroker -t mytopic
That will produce one kafka message to topic 'mytopic' for each line of input. See kafkacat -h for the full range of options (e.g., delimiter, specific partition, etc). Hope that helps, Magnus 2015-01-20 21:58 GMT+01:00 Su She <suhsheka...@gmail.com>: > Ahh yea that is what I was looking for, thank you! I only need it on the > producer side, are there any other options for that? > > Thanks! > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Joe Stein <joe.st...@stealth.ly> wrote: > > > This is a stdin/stdout producer/consumer that works great for (what I > > think) you are trying to-do https://github.com/edenhill/kafkacat > > > > /******************************************* > > Joe Stein > > Founder, Principal Consultant > > Big Data Open Source Security LLC > > http://www.stealth.ly > > Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> > > ********************************************/ > > > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Su She <suhsheka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > > > Sorry for asking multiple questions, but I am currently trying another > > > approach to run a kafka producer. > > > > > > 1) I started the kafka console producer as mentioned here in the > > background > > > (just added a & to the end of the producer script) : > > > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#introduction > > > > > > 2) I then ran a Java script that publishes messages to the console, > like > > > Hello World, etc, but the messages did not get published (I know the > > > connection was set up as if I manually typed in messages, I was able to > > see > > > them in my consumer). > > > > > > 3) Is this set up possible? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > -Su > > > > > >
