NAME
Kafka::Client - Client for LinkedIn's Kafka
WARNING
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!!!
DESCRIPTION
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.
SYNOPSIS
use Kafka::Client;
my $kafka = Kafka::Client->new( host => '127.0.0.1' );
my @messages = ( 'One', 'Two', 'Three' );
my $topic = 'test';
$kafka->send( \@messages, $topic );ATTRIBUTES
host
The host to which we are connecting.
port
The port to which we are connecting. Defaults to 9092.
METHODS
send ($messags, $topic, $parition)
Send one (or many!) messages to a specitic topic.
encode_message
Encodes a message, using the following format:
encode_produce_request
AUTHOR
Cory G Watson, <gphat at cpan.org>
CONTRIBUTORS
J. Shirley
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2011 Magazines.com, LLC
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.