node-red-contrib-kafka-node-latest

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Kafka Node

Kafka node can produce/consume the mesasges to/from kafka cluster along with topic on NodeRED.

Install

Install from npm

npm install -g node-red-contrib-kafka-node-latest

Prerequisites

• Node-RED platform. (see Node-RED)
• Kafka cluster (see Kafka).
• Some topics (see How to create a topic)

Usage

Producer Node

Parameters:

• brokerUrl - The brokerUrl of Kafka.
• Topic - The topic of message to produce.

Consumer Node

Parameters:

• brokerUrl - TThe brokerUrl of Kafka.
• Topic - The topic of message to produce.
• GroupId - The group ID.

Group ID is a string that uniquely identifies the group of consumer processes to which this consumer belongs. By setting the same group id multiple processes indicate that they are all part of the same consumer group.

Version

0.1.5

Tech

• Kafka - Apache Kafka is publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log.
• Zookeeper - ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services.
• Kafka-Node - Kafka-node is a Node.js client with Zookeeper integration for Apache Kafka 0.8.1 and later.

Authors

• Lucas Ren - [e-mail]