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Producer

The following example assumes that you are using the local Kafka configuration described in Running Kafka in Development.

const ip = require('ip')

const { Kafka, CompressionTypes, logLevel } = require('kafkajs')

const host = process.env.HOST_IP || ip.address()

const kafka = new Kafka({
  logLevel: logLevel.DEBUG,
  brokers: [`${host}:9092`],
  clientId: 'example-producer',
})

const topic = 'topic-test'
const producer = kafka.producer()

const getRandomNumber = () => Math.round(Math.random(10) * 1000)
const createMessage = num => ({
  key: `key-${num}`,
  value: `value-${num}-${new Date().toISOString()}`,
})

const sendMessage = () => {
  return producer
    .send({
      topic,
      compression: CompressionTypes.GZIP,
      messages: Array(getRandomNumber())
        .fill()
        .map(_ => createMessage(getRandomNumber())),
    })
    .then(console.log)
    .catch(e => console.error(`[example/producer] ${e.message}`, e))
}

const run = async () => {
  await producer.connect()
  setInterval(sendMessage, 3000)
}

run().catch(e => console.error(`[example/producer] ${e.message}`, e))

const errorTypes = ['unhandledRejection', 'uncaughtException']
const signalTraps = ['SIGTERM', 'SIGINT', 'SIGUSR2']

errorTypes.forEach(type => {
  process.on(type, async () => {
    try {
      console.log(`process.on ${type}`)
      await producer.disconnect()
      process.exit(0)
    } catch (_) {
      process.exit(1)
    }
  })
})

signalTraps.forEach(type => {
  process.once(type, async () => {
    try {
      await producer.disconnect()
    } finally {
      process.kill(process.pid, type)
    }
  })
})

Typescript Example

import { Kafka, Message, Producer, ProducerBatch, TopicMessages } from 'kafkajs'

interface CustomMessageFormat { a: string }

export default class ProducerFactory {
  private producer: Producer

  constructor() {
    this.producer = this.createProducer()
  }

  public async start(): Promise<void> {
    try {
      await this.producer.connect()
    } catch (error) {
      console.log('Error connecting the producer: ', error)
    }
  }

  public async shutdown(): Promise<void> {
    await this.producer.disconnect()
  }

  public async sendBatch(messages: Array<CustomMessageFormat>): Promise<void> {
    const kafkaMessages: Array<Message> = messages.map((message) => {
      return {
        value: JSON.stringify(message)
      }
    })

    const topicMessages: TopicMessages = {
      topic: 'producer-topic',
      messages: kafkaMessages
    }

    const batch: ProducerBatch = {
      topicMessages: [topicMessages]
    }

    await this.producer.sendBatch(batch)
  }

  private createProducer() : Producer {
    const kafka = new Kafka({
      clientId: 'producer-client',
      brokers: ['localhost:9092'],
    })

    return kafka.producer()
  }
}

SSL & SASL Authentication

See the Consumer Example.