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Jason Rosenberg commented on KAFKA-1101:
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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}



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