Kafka::Message - object interface to the Kafka message properties
This documentation refers to Kafka::Message version 0.12
Kafka::Message
The Kafka Consumer response has an ARRAY reference type. For the fetch response array has the class name Kafka::Message elements.
fetch
# Consuming messages my $messages = $consumer->fetch( "test", # topic 0, # partition 0, # offset DEFAULT_MAX_SIZE # Maximum size of MESSAGE(s) to receive ); if ( $messages ) { foreach my $message ( @$messages ) { if( $message->valid ) { print "payload : ", $message->payload, "\n"; print "offset : ", $message->offset, "\n"; print "next_offset: ", $message->next_offset, "\n"; } else { print "error : ", $message->error, "\n"; } } }
Kafka message API is implemented by Kafka::Message class.
The Kafka::Message module in Kafka package provides an object oriented access to the message properties. Reference to an array of objects of class Kafka::Message returned by the fetch method of the Consumer client. Package Kafka Kafka::Message class is not otherwise used.
The main features of the Kafka::Message class are:
Provides representing the Apache Kafka Wire Format MESSAGE structure (with no compression codec attribute now). Description of the structure is available at http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Wire+Format/
Support for working with 64 bit elements on 32 bit systems. offset and next_offset methods return the Math::BigInt integer on 32 bit systems.
offset
next_offset
new ( \%arg )
Creates a Kafka::Message, which is a newly created message object. new() takes an argument, this argument is a HASH reference with the currently used methods entries.
new()
Returns the created message as a Kafka::Message object, or error will cause the program to halt (confess) if the argument is not a valid HASH reference.
confess
The following methods are available for each Kafka::Message object and are specific to that object and the method calls invoked on it.
The available methods for objects of the Kafka::Message class are:
payload
A simple message received from the Apache Kafka server.
valid
A message entry is valid if the CRC32 of the message payload matches to the CRC stored with the message.
error
A description of the message inconsistence (currently only for when message is not valid or is compressed).
The offset beginning of the message in the Apache Kafka server.
The offset beginning of the next message in the Apache Kafka server.
Kafka::Message is not a user module and any constructor error is FATAL. FATAL errors will cause the program to halt (confess), since the problem is so severe that it would be dangerous to continue. (This can always be trapped with eval. Under the circumstances, dying is the best thing to do).
eval
Mismatch argument
This means that you didn't give the right argument to a new constructor, i.e. not a raw and unblessed HASH reference, or a HASH key doesn't have valid methods name, or not defined value.
new
defined
The basic operation of the Kafka package modules:
Kafka - constants and messages used by the Kafka package modules
Kafka::IO - object interface to socket communications with the Apache Kafka server
Kafka::Producer - object interface to the producer client
Kafka::Consumer - object interface to the consumer client
Kafka::Protocol - functions to process messages in the Apache Kafka's wire format
Kafka::Int64 - functions to work with 64 bit elements of the protocol on 32 bit systems
Kafka::Mock - object interface to the TCP mock server for testing
A wealth of detail about the Apache Kafka and Wire Format:
Main page at http://incubator.apache.org/kafka/
Wire Format at http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Wire+Format/
Writing a Driver for Kafka at http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Writing+a+Driver+for+Kafka
Sergey Gladkov, <sgladkov@trackingsoft.com>
Alexander Solovey
Jeremy Jordan
Vlad Marchenko
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To install Kafka, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Kafka
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Kafka
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.