Thanks for the pointer Joe. Let me look at Kafka Connect and see if that
can be used to address this use case.

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Praveen
>
> I think the direction of MiNiFi and where it can head will support
> this case nicely.  Today though I dont think we offer the simple
> library model you're looking for.  Fortunately, for Apache Kafka
> specifically their community has developed Kafka Connect [1] which
> sounds like it could be just what you need.
>
> Take a look at that and if that gets you where you want to be then
> great.  If not, or I've misunderstood the ask please let us know.
>
> [1] https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#connect
>
> Thanks
> Joe
>
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 8:50 PM, p pathiyil <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Aldrin,
> >
> > I am looking at a couple of different flows, but to take the most simple
> > scenario, I would like to leverage the PublishToKafka_0_10 processor of
> > MiNiFi alone. The application will obtain some data, send it to a
> Processor
> > that has a simple upstream connection interface like a socket or in
> memory
> > buffer (so that conversion to FlowFiles can be taken care of in that
> > Processor) and then use PublishToKafka_0_10 to directly publish to a
> Kafka
> > cluster. Will that be easy enough to do ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Praveen.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:24 AM, Aldrin Piri <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Neither NiFi nor MiNiFi (Java) is currently packaged as such.  Would you
> >> be able to expand upon your use case of publishing to Kafka and/or what
> >> facets of MiNiFi you are looking to utilize?  There may be other avenues
> >> that get you toward your solution.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Aldrin
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:03 PM, p pathiyil <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I am starting to look at MiNiFi for a use case that involves publishing
> >>> to Kafka. Is it feasible to use MiNiFi as a library (or set of
> libraries)
> >>> from within another Java program ? The primary reason for looking at
> such an
> >>> approach is the desire to hide the MiNiFi installation / process
> management
> >>> from the users of my application.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>
> >
>

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