Hi, I'm trying to write some simple producer to that writes messages to kafka I've downloaded kafka0.7
Run the kafka server, producer and consumer Ø bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties Ø bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --zookeeper zooserver:2181 --topic test --from-beginning Ø bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --zookeeper zooserver:2181 --topic test And everything working! Then I've created simple consumer , and it is worked also. SimpleConsumer consumer = new SimpleConsumer("172.21.110.134", 9092, 10000, 1024000); ... ByteBufferMessageSet messages = consumer.fetch(fetchRequest); System.out.println("consumed: " + Utils.toString(msg.message().payload(), "UTF-8")); But the following producer always throws an error ProducerConfig config = new ProducerConfig(props); ... Producer<String, Message> producer = new Producer<String, Message>(config); producer.send(new ProducerData<String, Message>("test", new Message("Hello World".getBytes()))); Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: kafka.message.Message cannot be cast to java.lang.String at kafka.serializer.StringEncoder.toMessage(Encoder.scala:30) at kafka.producer.ProducerPool$$anonfun$send$1$$anonfun$3$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(ProducerPool.scala:107) I'm using the following maven dependencies <dependency> <groupId>com.twitter</groupId> <artifactId>kafka_2.9.2</artifactId> <version>0.7.0</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId> <artifactId>scala-library</artifactId> <version>2.9.2</version> </dependency> What am I missing?