Thanks Magnus,

One clarification...If I have a java program outputting messages, that is
stdout, can the producer use stdout or only stdin?

Thanks,

Su

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Magnus Edenhill <mag...@edenhill.se> wrote:

> Hi Su,
>
> It is as simple as piping to it:
>  some_program_outputting_the_stuff | kafkacat -b mybroker -t mytopic
>
> That will produce one kafka message to topic 'mytopic' for each line of
> input.
> See kafkacat -h for the full range of options (e.g., delimiter, specific
> partition, etc).
>
> Hope that helps,
> Magnus
>
> 2015-01-20 21:58 GMT+01:00 Su She <suhsheka...@gmail.com>:
>
> > Ahh yea that is what I was looking for, thank you! I only need it on the
> > producer side, are there any other options for that?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Joe Stein <joe.st...@stealth.ly>
> wrote:
> >
> > > This is a stdin/stdout producer/consumer that works great for (what I
> > > think) you are trying to-do https://github.com/edenhill/kafkacat
> > >
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> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Su She <suhsheka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello Everyone,
> > > >
> > > > Sorry for asking multiple questions, but I am currently trying
> another
> > > > approach to run a kafka producer.
> > > >
> > > > 1) I started the kafka console producer as mentioned here in the
> > > background
> > > > (just added a & to the end of the producer script) :
> > > > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#introduction
> > > >
> > > > 2) I then ran a Java script that publishes messages to the console,
> > like
> > > > Hello World, etc, but the messages did not get published (I know the
> > > > connection was set up as if I manually typed in messages, I was able
> to
> > > see
> > > > them in my consumer).
> > > >
> > > > 3) Is this set up possible?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > -Su
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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