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Jason Rosenberg commented on KAFKA-1101: ---------------------------------------- Hi Joe, I really don't need a java wrapper layer, as long as the signature for the scala classes is readily accessible from java, which is usually the case. Yeah, so what you suggest is all I need, just a single arg constructor: new KafkaServer(kafkaConfig); That was how it worked in 0.7.2. I'd guess that should be easy to expose, and in that case have it default to using a default SystemTime (same as I end up doing by passing SystemTime$.MODULE$). Eventually, though, yes, it would be great to have a simple java wrapper api library, that's well documented and fully interoperable with java. Even the current kafka.javaapi.* package still requires using direct scala classes (e.g. if you want to use a serializer for a producer, etc.). For the most part though, the scala - java interop is great, so I can't complain too much.... > Need better java api for embedding kafkaserver in a java container app > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-1101 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1101 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Jason Rosenberg > > We embed the KafkaServer inside a java service container framework, which > makes it easy to deploy and monitor within our infrastructure. When > upgrading to kafka 0.8 from 0.7.2, I ran into an issue with not being able to > pass the needed constructor arg (SystemTime), since there doesn't appear to > be an easy way to instantiate that from java. So, I ended up with this janky > solution using SystemTime$.MODULE$. > Could a default constructor be added which assumes a default SystemTime, > rather than requiring that here? > Note, I need to construct a KafkaServer directly, since I need to manage the > lifecycle more directly than can be done with KafkaServerStartable. > {code} > // Need to do janky scala MODULE$ dereferencing, in order to get a > default value in ctor > server = new kafka.server.KafkaServer(kafkaConfig, SystemTime$.MODULE$); > server.startup(); > {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1#6144)