This is known issue in some of the command line tools. JIRA is here : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2619
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:16 AM, ZHU Hua B <hua.b....@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > Anybody could help to answer this question? Thanks! > > > > > > > Best Regards > > Johnny > > -----Original Message----- > From: ZHU Hua B > Sent: 2016年10月14日 16:41 > To: users@kafka.apache.org > Subject: [COMMERCIAL] A question about kafka > > Hi, > > > I have a question about kafka, could you please help to have a look? > > I want to send a message from producer with snappy compression codec. So I > run the command "bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --compression-codec snappy > --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test", after that I checked the data > log, compresscodec is SnappyCompressionCodec as expectation. > > Then I tried another command "bin/kafka-console-producer.sh > --producer-property compression.type=snappy --broker-list localhost:9092 > --topic test" to send a message from producer with snappy also, but this > time I found compresscodec is NoCompressionCodec in data log. > I double checked the option of "kafka-console-producer.sh" as below, seems > both "--compression-codec" and "--producer-property" could be used to set > up compression codec, why the second way failed? The "key=value" I found in > config/producer.properties, so I think it is regular. Thanks! > > # bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --help > > --compression-codec [compression-codec] The compression codec: either > 'none','gzip', 'snappy', or 'lz4'.If specified without value, then it > defaults to 'gzip'. > > --producer-property <producer_prop> A mechanism to pass user-defined > properties in the form key=value to the producer. > > --producer.config <config file> Producer config properties file. > Note that [producer-property] takes precedence over this config. > > > > > > > Best Regards > > Johnny > >
