Kafka - kafka-avro-console-producer utility

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The kafka-avro-console-producer is a producer command line to read data from standard input and write it to a Kafka topic in an avro format.

This console uses the Avro converter with the Schema Registry in order to properly write the Avro data schema.

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Example

Producer

• Start the REPL and define the schema

kafka-avro-console-producer \
  --broker-list kafkahost:29092 --topic bar \
  --property value.schema='{"type":"record","name":"myrecord","fields":[{"name":"f1","type":"string"}]}'

• Insert data that conform to the schema

{"f1": "value1"}
{"f1": "value2"}
{"f1": "value3"}