There is also kafkacat (https://github.com/edenhill/kafkacat), which exposes a few more knobs than the console producer.
-Jason On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 6:40 PM, tsoli...@gmail.com <tsoli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you, Shayne. > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Shayne S <shaynest...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The console producer will read from STDIN. Assuming you are using 0.8.2, > > you can pipe the file right in like this: > > > > kafka-console-produce.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic my_topic > > --new-producer < my_file.txt > > > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 6:32 PM, tsoli...@gmail.com <tsoli...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hello, I am trying to setup a Kafka producer to take input from a file > > > instead of standard input. According to Kafka documentation > > > <https://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html>: > > > > > > Kafka comes with a command line client that will take input from a file > > or > > > > from standard input and send it out as messages to the Kafka cluster. > > > > > > > > > I could not seem to find any documentation on how the the command line > > > client can read from a file. Could you please help? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Tim > > > > > >
