Apache Kafka®¶

Apache Kafka® is an open-source stream-processing software platform developed by LinkedIn and donated to the Apache Software Foundation, written in Scala and Java.

Kafka® can be used in CAP as a message transporter.

Configuration¶

To use Kafka transporter, you need to install the following package from NuGet:

PM> Install-Package DotNetCore.CAP.Kafka

Then you can add configuration items to the ConfigureServices method of Startup.cs.

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    // ...

    services.AddCap(x =>
    {
        x.UseKafka(opt=>{
            //KafkaOptions
        });
        // x.UseXXX ...
    });
}

Kafka Options¶

The Kafka configuration parameters provided directly by the CAP:

NAME	DESCRIPTION	TYPE	DEFAULT
Servers	Broker server address	string
ConnectionPoolSize	connection pool size	int	10
CustomHeaders	Custom subscribe headers	Func<>	N/A

CustomHeaders Options¶

When the message sent from a heterogeneous system, because of the CAP needs to define additional headers, so an exception will occur at this time. By providing this parameter to set the custom headersn to make the subscriber works.

You can find the description of heterogeneous system integration here.

Sometimes, if you want to get additional context information from Broker, you can also add it through this option. For example, add information such as Offset or Partition.

Example：

x.UseKafka(opt =>
{
    //...

    opt.CustomHeaders = kafkaResult => new List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>
    {
        new KeyValuePair<string, string>("my.kafka.offset", kafkaResult.Offset.ToString()),
        new KeyValuePair<string, string>("my.kafka.partition", kafkaResult.Partition.ToString())
    };
});

Then you can get the header you added by this way:

[CapSubscribe("sample.kafka.postgrsql")]
public void HeadersTest(DateTime value, [FromCap]CapHeader header)
{
    var offset = header["my.kafka.offset"];
    var partition = header["my.kafka.partition"];
}

Kafka MainConfig Options¶

If you need more native Kakfa related configuration options, you can set them in the MainConfig configuration option:

services.AddCap(capOptions => 
{
    capOptions.UseKafka(kafkaOption=>
    {
        // kafka options.
        // kafkaOptions.MainConfig.Add("", "");
    });
});

MainConfig is a configuration dictionary, you can find a list of supported configuration options through the following link.

https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka/blob/master/CONFIGURATION.md