Hey guys, There's already a REST interface maintained as a separate project--it's open source and apache licensed and actively maintained ( https://github.com/confluentinc/kafka-rest). What is wrong with that? You mentioned that there was some compatibility concern, but compatibility has to do with the consumer protocol guarantees not the repo the code is in, right? Not sure that concern makes sense.
We could argue for adding pretty much anything and everything in the ecosystem page in Kafka itself but I'm not sure that would make the project more agile. -Jay On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 12:04 AM, Manikumar <manikumar.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Kafka Devs, > > I created KIP-80 to add Kafka REST Server to Kafka Repository. > > There are already open-source alternatives are available. But we would > like to add REST server that > many users ask for under Apache Kafka repo. Many data Infra tools comes up > with Rest Interface. > It is useful to have inbuilt Rest API support for Produce, Consume messages > and admin interface for > integrating with external management and provisioning tools.This will also > allow the maintenance of > REST server and adding new features makes it easy because apache community. > > The KIP wiki is the following: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP- > 80%3A+Kafka+Rest+Server > > Your comments and feedback are welcome. > > Thanks, > Manikumar >
