How To Produce To A Topic#

Introduction#

A Producer is a process which produces messages to a Kafka topic. In Hopsworks, only users with the 'Data owner' role are capable of performing the 'Write' action on Kafka topics within the project that they are a member of.

Prerequisites#

This guide requires that you have 'Data owner' role and have previously created a Kafka Topic.

Code#

In this guide, you will learn how to produce messages to a kafka topic.

Step 1: Get the Kafka API#

import hopsworks

project = hopsworks.login()

kafka_api = project.get_kafka_api()

Step 2: Configure confluent-kafka client#

producer_config = kafka_api.get_default_config()

from confluent_kafka import Producer

producer = Producer(producer_config)

Step 3: Produce messages to topic#

import uuid
import json

# Send a few messages
for i in range(0, 10):
    producer.produce("my_topic", json.dumps({"id": i, "data": str(uuid.uuid1())}), "key")

# Trigger the sending of all messages to the brokers, 10 sec timeout
producer.flush(10)

API Reference#

KafkaTopic

Conclusion#

In this guide you learned how to produce messages to a Kafka Topic. Next step is to create a Consumer to read the messages from the topic.