kafka producer pulling from custom restAPI

2014-06-27 Thread sonali.parthasarathy
Hi, I have a quick question. Say I have a custom REST API with data in JSON format. Can the Kafka Producer read directly from the REST API and write to a topic? If so, can you point me to the code base? Thanks, Sonali Sonali Parthasarathy R&D Developer, Data Insights Accenture Technology Labs

RE: kafka producer pulling from custom restAPI

2014-06-30 Thread sonali.parthasarathy
Ah, gotcha. Thanks, Sonali -Original Message- From: Steve Morin [mailto:steve.mo...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 4:45 PM To: users@kafka.apache.org Cc: Subject: Re: kafka producer pulling from custom restAPI The answer is no, it doesn't work that way. You would have to write

EBCDIC support

2014-08-25 Thread sonali.parthasarathy
Hey all, This might seem like a silly question, but does kafka have support for EBCDIC? Say I had to read data from an IBM mainframe via a TCP/IP socket where the data resides in EBCDIC format, can Kafka read that directly? Thanks, Sonali This message is for t

RE: EBCDIC support

2014-08-25 Thread sonali.parthasarathy
Thanks Gwen! makes sense. So I'll have to weigh the pros and cons of doing an EBCDIC to ASCII conversion before sending to Kafka Vs. using an ebcdic library after in the consumer Thanks! S -Original Message- From: Gwen Shapira [mailto:gshap...@cloudera.com] Sent: Monday, August 25, 201