Kafka & Java: Unsecure Consumer Read Record

In this tutorial I will show you how to read a record to Kafka. Before you begin you will need Maven/Eclipse all setup and a project ready to go. If you haven’t installed Kafka yet please do so.

POM.xml

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
	<artifactId>kafka-clients</artifactId>
	<version>1.1.0</version>
</dependency>

Imports

import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.*;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Arrays;

Consumer Props File

You can go here to view all the options for consumer properties.

# The url to kafka
bootstrap.servers=localhost:9092
 
#identify consumer group
group.id=test
 
#offset will be periodically committed in the background
enable.auto.commit=true
 
# The serializer for the key
key.deserializer=org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer
 
# The serializer for the value
value.deserializer=org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer
 
# heartbeat to detect worker failures
session.timeout.ms=10000
 
#Automatically reset offset to earliest offset
auto.offset.reset=earliest

Consumer Connection/Send

The record we will read will just be a string for both key and value.

Consumer<String, String> consumer = null;
 
try {
	ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
 
	try (InputStream props = classLoader.getResourceAsStream("consumer.props")) {
		Properties properties = new Properties();
		properties.load(props);
		consumer = new KafkaConsumer<>(properties);
	}
	
	System.out.println("Consumer Created");
 
	// Subscribe to the topic.
	consumer.subscribe(Arrays.asList("testTopic"));
 
	while (true) {
		final ConsumerRecords<String, String> consumerRecords = consumer.poll(1000);
		
		if (consumerRecords.count() == 0) {
			//Keep reading till no records
			break;
		}
 
		consumerRecords.forEach(record -> {
			System.out.printf("Consumer Record:(%s, %s, %d, %d)\n", record.key(), record.value(), record.partition(), record.offset());
		});
 
		//Commit offsets returned on the last poll() for all the subscribed list of topics and partition
		consumer.commitAsync();
	}
} finally {
	consumer.close();
}
System.out.println("Consumer Closed");

References

I used kafka-sample-programs as a guide for setting up props.