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= Beetle
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Beetle is a somewhat higher level Java API on top of the client libraries
distributed distributed with link:http://kafka.apache.org[Apache Kafka]. The
goal of this library is not to replace the use of those libraries, but to wrap
the library in a more easy to use package.
== System Requirements
* JDK7 or later
== Hacking
This project uses link:http://gradle.org[Gradle] so building and testing should
be as easy as executing:
% ./gradlew
== Design/Notes/Thoughts
NOTE: Right now this section is very much just a brain-dump/work-in-progress
What is fundamentally missing from the upstream Kafka clients is an evented
view on the world. Despite Zookeeper and Kafka's models effectively being
event-driven,
link:https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/0.8.0+SimpleConsumer+Example[implementing
a lower-level SimpleConsumer] utilizes busy-loops and rather disjointed logic
for reconnects and error handling. The link:https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Consumer+Group+Example[higher-level
consumer API] is also awkward to use as far as receiving messages (using an
iterator) and handling parallel operations (stuffing a thread pool somewhere
for receiving).
A high-level Kafka consumer API maps rather nicely to the
link:https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava[RxJava] usage model of Observers and
Subscribers, e.g.g
.Consumer.java
[source, java]
----
/*
* Prototype code showing how a typical end-user might use Beetle
*/
Brokers.fromZookeeper("localhost:2181")
/* assuming a custom subscribe() operator exists in Beetle */
.subscribe("some-topic")
/* assuming a custom consume() operator exists in Beetle */
.consume(message -> doSomethingWithMessage(message))
.map(message -> message.commitOffset());
----
.ZookeeperlessConsumer.java
[source, java]
----
/*
* Assuming we already know which broker we want to talk to and
* we don't care at all about leader changes or committing offsets
*/
long startOffset = 0;
Brokers.just('localhost:6667')
.subscribe("some-topic", startOffset)
.consume(m -> doSomethingWithMessage(m))
----
.LowLevelBeetle.java
[source, java]
----
/*
* The following is a prototype of some ideas for how the above examples
* might be implemented internally
*/
CuratorFramework cf = CuratorFrameworkFactory.newClient("localhost:2181");
BrokersObserver.observe(cf)
.subscribe(brokers -> TopicsObserver.observe(cf, brokers))
.subscribe(partitions -> ConsumerObserver.observe(cf, partitions))
.map(message ->
doCustomBehaviorWith(message))
.map(message -> m.commitOffsetTo(cf));
----
== Similar Projects
. link:https://github.com/cjdev/kafka-rx[kafka-rx]: Scala-based client which
provides a push alternative to kafka's pull-based stream