3. Introduction
This first part of the reference documentation is a high-level overview of Spring for Apache Kafka and the underlying concepts and some code snippets that can help you get up and running as quickly as possible.
3.1. Quick Tour for the Impatient
This is the five-minute tour to get started with Spring Kafka.
Prerequisites: You must install and run Apache Kafka. Then you must grab the spring-kafka JAR and all of its dependencies. The easiest way to do that is to declare a dependency in your build tool. The following example shows how to do so with Maven:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.kafka</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-kafka</artifactId>
<version>2.2.5.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
The following example shows how to do so with Gradle:
compile 'org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka:2.2.5.RELEASE'
3.1.1. Compatibility
This quick tour works with the following versions:
Apache Kafka Clients 2.0.0
Spring Framework 5.1.x
Minimum Java version: 8
3.1.2. A Very, Very Quick Example
As the following example shows, you can use plain Java to send and receive a message:
@Test
public void testAutoCommit() throws Exception {
logger.info("Start auto");
ContainerProperties containerProps = new ContainerProperties("topic1", "topic2");
final CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(4);
containerProps.setMessageListener(new MessageListener<Integer, String>() {
@Override
public void onMessage(ConsumerRecord<Integer, String> message) {
logger.info("received: " + message);
latch.countDown();
}
});
KafkaMessageListenerContainer<Integer, String> container = createContainer(containerProps);
container.setBeanName("testAuto");
container.start();
Thread.sleep(1000); // wait a bit for the container to start
KafkaTemplate<Integer, String> template = createTemplate();
template.setDefaultTopic(topic1);
template.sendDefault(0, "foo");
template.sendDefault(2, "bar");
template.sendDefault(0, "baz");
template.sendDefault(2, "qux");
template.flush();
assertTrue(latch.await(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS));
container.stop();
logger.info("Stop auto");
}
private KafkaMessageListenerContainer<Integer, String> createContainer(
ContainerProperties containerProps) {
Map<String, Object> props = consumerProps();
DefaultKafkaConsumerFactory<Integer, String> cf =
new DefaultKafkaConsumerFactory<Integer, String>(props);
KafkaMessageListenerContainer<Integer, String> container =
new KafkaMessageListenerContainer<>(cf, containerProps);
return container;
}
private KafkaTemplate<Integer, String> createTemplate() {
Map<String, Object> senderProps = senderProps();
ProducerFactory<Integer, String> pf =
new DefaultKafkaProducerFactory<Integer, String>(senderProps);
KafkaTemplate<Integer, String> template = new KafkaTemplate<>(pf);
return template;
}
private Map<String, Object> consumerProps() {
Map<String, Object> props = new HashMap<>();
props.put(ConsumerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, "localhost:9092");
props.put(ConsumerConfig.GROUP_ID_CONFIG, group);
props.put(ConsumerConfig.ENABLE_AUTO_COMMIT_CONFIG, true);
props.put(ConsumerConfig.AUTO_COMMIT_INTERVAL_MS_CONFIG, "100");
props.put(ConsumerConfig.SESSION_TIMEOUT_MS_CONFIG, "15000");
props.put(ConsumerConfig.KEY_DESERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, IntegerDeserializer.class);
props.put(ConsumerConfig.VALUE_DESERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, StringDeserializer.class);
return props;
}
private Map<String, Object> senderProps() {
Map<String, Object> props = new HashMap<>();
props.put(ProducerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, "localhost:9092");
props.put(ProducerConfig.RETRIES_CONFIG, 0);
props.put(ProducerConfig.BATCH_SIZE_CONFIG, 16384);
props.put(ProducerConfig.LINGER_MS_CONFIG, 1);
props.put(ProducerConfig.BUFFER_MEMORY_CONFIG, 33554432);
props.put(ProducerConfig.KEY_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, IntegerSerializer.class);
props.put(ProducerConfig.VALUE_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, StringSerializer.class);
return props;
}
3.1.3. With Java Configuration
You can do the same work as appears in the previous example with Spring configuration in Java. The following example shows how to do so:
@Autowired
private Listener listener;
@Autowired
private KafkaTemplate<Integer, String> template;
@Test
public void testSimple() throws Exception {
template.send("annotated1", 0, "foo");
template.flush();
assertTrue(this.listener.latch1.await(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS));
}
@Configuration
@EnableKafka
public class Config {
@Bean
ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<Integer, String>
kafkaListenerContainerFactory() {
ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<Integer, String> factory =
new ConcurrentKafkaListenerContainerFactory<>();
factory.setConsumerFactory(consumerFactory());
return factory;
}
@Bean
public ConsumerFactory<Integer, String> consumerFactory() {
return new DefaultKafkaConsumerFactory<>(consumerConfigs());
}
@Bean
public Map<String, Object> consumerConfigs() {
Map<String, Object> props = new HashMap<>();
props.put(ConsumerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, embeddedKafka.getBrokersAsString());
...
return props;
}
@Bean
public Listener listener() {
return new Listener();
}
@Bean
public ProducerFactory<Integer, String> producerFactory() {
return new DefaultKafkaProducerFactory<>(producerConfigs());
}
@Bean
public Map<String, Object> producerConfigs() {
Map<String, Object> props = new HashMap<>();
props.put(ProducerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, embeddedKafka.getBrokersAsString());
...
return props;
}
@Bean
public KafkaTemplate<Integer, String> kafkaTemplate() {
return new KafkaTemplate<Integer, String>(producerFactory());
}
}
public class Listener {
private final CountDownLatch latch1 = new CountDownLatch(1);
@KafkaListener(id = "foo", topics = "annotated1")
public void listen1(String foo) {
this.latch1.countDown();
}
}
3.1.4. Even Quicker, with Spring Boot
Spring Boot can make things even simpler. The following Spring Boot application sends three messages to a topic, receives them, and stops:
@SpringBootApplication
public class Application implements CommandLineRunner {
public static Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Application.class);
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args).close();
}
@Autowired
private KafkaTemplate<String, String> template;
private final CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(3);
@Override
public void run(String... args) throws Exception {
this.template.send("myTopic", "foo1");
this.template.send("myTopic", "foo2");
this.template.send("myTopic", "foo3");
latch.await(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
logger.info("All received");
}
@KafkaListener(topics = "myTopic")
public void listen(ConsumerRecord<?, ?> cr) throws Exception {
logger.info(cr.toString());
latch.countDown();
}
}
Boot takes care of most of the configuration. When we use a local broker, the only properties we need are the following:
Example 1. application.properties
spring.kafka.consumer.group-id=foo
spring.kafka.consumer.auto-offset-reset=earliest
We need the first property because we are using group management to assign topic partitions to consumers, so we need a group.
The second property ensures the new consumer group gets the messages we sent, because the container might start after the sends have completed.
https://docs.spring.io/spring-kafka/reference/html/#events