Sunday 28 January 2018

Apache Kafka - III

In the third part of Apache Kafka, we continue with more commands. We will use the same environment that we set up in this post

Let us restart Zookeeper and Kafka we have done in previous post with below commands:

Start Zookeeper:

Open first terminal:

F:\>
F:\>cd kafka_2.12-1.0.0

F:\kafka_2.12-1.0.0>bin\windows\zookeeper-server-start.bat config\zookeeper.properties

Start Kafka:

Next, open another terminal and start Kafka as shown below:

F:\>
F:\>cd kafka_2.12-1.0.0

F:\kafka_2.12-1.0.0>bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat config\server.properties


Create Topic:

In a third terminal, let us now proceed to create a topic called topic1 having a replication factor as 1 and number of partitions as 3:

F:\>
F:\>cd kafka_2.12-1.0.0

F:\kafka_2.12-1.0.0>bin\windows\kafka-topics.bat --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 3 --topic topic1

Start Producer:

In a fourth terminal, let us start a producer with below command as shown:

F:\>
F:\>cd kafka_2.12-1.0.0

F:\kafka_2.12-1.0.0>bin\windows\kafka-console-producer.bat --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic topic1


In a fifth terminal, increase the retention time (in milliseconds) of messages as shown below:

F:\>
F:\>cd kafka_2.12-1.0.0

F:\kafka_2.12-1.0.0>bin\windows\kafka-configs --zookeeper localhost:2181 --entity-type topics --entity-name topic1 --alter --add-config retention.ms=1800000

In the fourth terminal, add the following messages:

>Message 1
>Message 2
>Message 3
>Message 4
>Message 5
>Message 6
>Message 7
>Message 8
>Message 9
>Message 10
>Message 11
>Messgae 12
>Message 13


Start Consumer:

On a sixth terminal, start a console consumer as follows:

bin\windows\kafka-console-consumer.bat --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic topic1 --from-beginning

Output is shown below:

F:\kafka_2.12-1.0.0>bin\windows\kafka-console-consumer.bat --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic topic1 --from-beginning
Message 1
Message 4
Message 7
Message 10
Message 13
Message 2
Message 5
Message 8
Message 11
Message 3
Message 6
Message 9
Messgae 12


Note that the order of messages is not the same.  You can see the messages through the command we ran in the post:

F:\kafka_2.12-1.0.0>bin\windows\kafka-console-consumer.bat --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic topic1 --from-beginning
Using the ConsoleConsumer with old consumer is deprecated and will be removed in a future major release. Consider using the new consumer by passing [bootstrap-server] instead of [zookeeper].
Message 2
Message 5
Message 8
Message 11
Message 3
Message 6
Message 9
Messgae 12
Message 1
Message 4
Message 7
Message 10
Message 13


To see the messages in a partition, run below command:

bin\windows\kafka-console-consumer.bat --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic topic1 --partition 0 --from-beginning

Output is shown below:

F:\kafka_2.12-1.0.0>bin\windows\kafka-console-consumer.bat --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic topic1 --partition 0 --from-beginning
Message 2
Message 5
Message 8
Message 11


Note that the messages within a partition are ordered 

This concludes the third post on Apache Kafka