Kafka::Client - Client for LinkedIn's Kafka

This module is almost completely untested, save that it actually gets messages to send to Kafka. It cannot consume and might set things on fire. It might not be encoded correctly. Patches are welcome!!!

Kafka::Client is a client for LinkedIn's <Kafka|http://sna-projects.com/kafka/>. It was pretty much translated directly from kafka.py that is included in the kafka source code.

use Kafka::Client;

my $kafka = Kafka::Client->new( host => '127.0.0.1' );

my @messages = ( 'One', 'Two', 'Three' ); my $topic = 'test';

$kafka->send( @messages, $topic );

The host to which we are connecting.

The port to which we are connecting. Defaults to 9092.

Send one (or many!) messages to a specitic topic.

Encodes a message, using the following format:

• MAGIC_BYTE: char

• CRC32: int

• PAYLOAD: bytes

Cory G Watson, <gphat at cpan.org>

J. Shirley

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