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The Apache Kafka event receiver reads the tail of a given file and inputs that to the WSO2 product engine. This feature is donated by Andres Gomez Ferrer. For more information, go to Apache Kafka documentation.

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  1. Download Apache Kafka server
  2. Copy the following client JAR files from <KAFKA_HOME>/lib/ directory  to <PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/components/lib/ directory.

    • kafka_2.10-0.8.1.jar
    • zkclient-0.3.jar
    • scala-library-2.10.1.jar
    • zookeeper-3.3.4.jar
    • kafka-clients-0.8.2.1
    • metrics-core-2.2.0
    Start the Apache Kafka server.
    Info

    The above jars are the client jars for Kafka 2.10-0.8.1. If you want to use the client jars for Kafka_2.10-0.9.0.1

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  1. or Kafka_2.11-0.9.0.1, the following needs to be done.

    1. Copy the following client JAR files from <KAFKA_HOME>/lib/ directory  to <PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/components/lib/ directory.
      • kafka_2.11-0.9.0.1.jar
      • kafka-clients-0.9.0.1.jar
      • metrics-core-2.2.0.jar
      • scala-library-2.11.7.jar
      • scala-parser-combinators_2.11-1.0.4.jar
      • zkclient-0.7.jar
      • zookeeper-3.4.6.jar
    2. Download the jass.conf file and save it in the <DAS_HOME>/repository/conf/security directory.
  2. Start the Apache Kafka server.

Creating an Kafka  event receiver 

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Adapter Property
Description
Configuration file propertyExample

Server Zookeeper IP

IP address of the Zookeeper Server

zookeeper.connect
127.0.0.1

Group ID Kafka

Kafka consumer group id which uniquely identifies a set of consumers within the same consumer group

group.id
groupid

Threads

Number of consumer threads

threads
4
Optional Configuration Properties

Valid property and value pairs to denote o ptional configuration properties for Apache Kafka. (E.g. "property1: value1, property2: value2")

For more information on Axis2 JMS properties, go to Apache Kafka Documentation.

optional.configurationzk.sessiontimeout.ms:6000
Topic Kafka Name of the Kafka topic to which, input messages are published
topic
test_topic
Is events duplicated in cluster In a cluster whether the same event can reach two receiver nodes
events.duplicated.in.cluster
true/false

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