Output Kafka event adapter is used to send events to a specific Web service location using POST. This feature is donated by Andres Gomez Ferrer. For more information on Apache Kafka, go to Apache Kafka documentation.
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- Log in to the product's management console, and click Configure.
Click Output Event Adaptors in the Event Processor Configs menu, and then click Add Output Event Adaptor.
Enter details as shown in the below example.
Click Add Event Adaptor.
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The configured output event adapters are used in event formatters. With output event adapter message properties, event formatters are able to extract data from event streams and format the output events. Following are the output Kafka event adapter-specific message properties.
. Message properties specific to output event adapters of the
kafka type can be configured as follows.- Log into the CEP Management Console. For detailed instructions, see Running the Product.
- Click the Configure tab and then click Event Formatters to open the Available Event Formatters page.
Click the name of the event formatter to which the relevant output event adapter is connected. This opens the Event Formatter Details page.
The message properties of a kafka output event adapter are described below. Change the property values as required.Property Description Topic Kafka Topic of the Kafka. Output Event Type The outgoing event type to be mapped. The output Kafka event adapter supports JSON, text, and XML mappings.