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I personally only know that it exists, but don't know any details. -Matthias On 5/10/21 5:44 AM, Greer, Andrew C wrote: > Thank you. Is Faust a recommended library for accomplishing this in python? > > Andrew > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthias J. Sax <mj...@apache.org> > Sent: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 2:25 PM > To: users@kafka.apache.org > Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: API use for Kafka Streams in KSQLDB > > CAUTION:This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click > links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the > content is safe. > > > > In general, it's not recommended to call external APIs. Instead, you should > try to get the external data into a TABLE in ksqlDB and do a stream-table > join. Not sure if this would be possible for you use case. > > It might be possible to write a UDF though... But given that the external > call might fail, and you should not "block" inside the UDF it's would be a > brittle approach. > > Using Kafka Streams would give you more flexibility to do an external API can > and handle failed requests and retries. > > > -Matthias > > > On 5/5/21 9:53 AM, Greer, Andrew C wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am looking for options to call an external API within KSQL. My goal is to >> connect a Stream to a topic containing message data, call an API using some >> of that data, then produce updated data to new topics. Is there a known way >> for doing this? If not, any alternatives? >> >> Thank you for any future help, >> >> Andrew >> >>
