uber-nodesol-write

A queueing Kafka client library for Nodejs.

Messages will be held in a memory queue if broker is unavailable.

This kafka library only supports writing to kafka. If you want to read from kafka please use https://github.com/uber/nodesol

Usage

var NodeSol = require('uber-nodesol-write').NodeSol;
var ns = new NodeSol({ leafHost: 'localhost', leafPort: 9093 });
 
ns.connect(function() {
    ns.log_line('my_topic', 'Important message'); // Timestamped log entry with host
    ns.produce('my_other_topic', 'Important message #2'); // Just sends the raw message directly to kafka
});

Options

Nodesol constructor accepts these options:

• leafHost - ZooKeeper hostname (default: localhost)
• leafPort - ZooKeeper port (default: 9093)
• timeout - ZooKeeper connection timeout, ms (default: 200000)
• connectionCache - if set to true it will cache TCP sockets per host+port. (default: false)
• broker_reconnect_after - interval between broker reconnect attempts, ms (default: 1000)
• queue_limit - maximum number of items to hold in topic queue when broker is unavailable (default: 1000)

Running tests

Tests are run using npm:

npm test

MIT Licenced