Re: REST API

2013-07-19 Thread Jay Kreps
Makes sense. -Jay On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:25 PM, David Arthur wrote: > I think there would be many advantages to having a REST API in Kafka, as a > core component. Not just for data services (producing/consuming messages), > but also for admin. I could imagine a Kafka web console that showed

Re: REST API

2013-07-19 Thread David Arthur
I think there would be many advantages to having a REST API in Kafka, as a core component. Not just for data services (producing/consuming messages), but also for admin. I could imagine a Kafka web console that showed various stats, allowed for maintenance operations, showed pretty viz of the c

Re: REST API

2013-07-19 Thread Jay Kreps
I think this is really cool and would be useful for a lot of people. David, do you think it would really benefit from being a contrib package in kafka versus a separately hosted github project? Here was our experience: contrib packages tend to get added but the authors and don't necessarily want i

Re: REST API

2013-07-18 Thread David Arthur
I did some work on this a while ago: https://github.com/mumrah/kafka/commits/rest I think people would still be interested. I know I would :) -David On 7/18/13 6:19 PM, Yogita Bijani wrote: Hi, I am a newbie, I was just checking if there has been any updates on the REST proxy. I have tried