I have a working copy of kafka 0.8 producer in c++. I have not yet published it on github, since I did not get time to clean it up properly. If you wait till the weekend, I can clean up and share the repo. After that you can either use it or modify and use it.
Thanks, Rohit On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Magnus Edenhill <mag...@edenhill.se> wrote: > Hi Matt, > > regarding librdkafka: > > - the AF_NETLINK stuff has now been removed, a helper function had support > for it but it had no relevance to Kafka operation. > > - TLS: it would be possible to remove the need for TLS in rdkafka, but it > does feel like a leap back in time; even NetBSD has support for TLS now > (since 6.0)! What system are you on? > > - 0.8: rdkafka will have 0.8 protocol support about the same time as Apache > Kafka 0.8 is released, which is within a month from what I understand. > > - C++: I'd be happy to accept patches/pull-reqs to make rdkafka more C++ > friendly. > > Regards, > Magnus > > > > 2013/3/28 Matthew Stump <mst...@matthewstump.com> > > > Howdy, > > > > I'm considering the use of Kafka in the rewrite of a big legacy product. > A > > good chunk of the back end code is going to be written in C++ (large in > > memory data-structures). The two possible options available to me for > > clients appear to be: > > > > https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka > > > > and > > > > https://github.com/quipo/kafka-cpp > > > > The problem is that librdkafka currently only works on Linux due to the > use > > of the AF_NETLINK API, and thread local storage. There may be other > issues, > > but I just started playing with it today and that's what I've discovered > > thus far. > > > > kafka-cpp is incomplete (no consumer) and it looks unused. > > > > For either I would need to hop in and do some significant work. Is there > > any client I'm missing that can shorten my path? > > > > If I adopt one of these projects (lets say kafka-cpp) am I better off > > implementing the 0.8 protocol? I'de like to have something running in > > staging a couple months from now. How far out is 0.8? > > > > Thanks, > > Matt Stump > > >
