I need to write a smoke test in Java which validates whether the system is connected to kafka,
Does anyone have any idea?
I have found this post:
How to check whether Kafka Server is running?
But it's too complicated to do from a Java code and I don't think It's the direction i should use.
Thanks in advance.
I had the same question and I don't want to leave this question without any answer.
I read a lot about how I can check the connection and most of the answers I found was checking the connection with Zk, but I really want to check the connection directly with Kafka server.
What I did is to create a simple KafkaConsumer and list all the topics with listTopics(). If the connection is success, then you will get something as a return. Otherwise, you will get a TimeoutException
.
def validateKafkaConnection(kafkaParams : mutable.Map[String, Object]) : Unit = {
val props = new Properties()
props.put("bootstrap.servers", kafkaParams.get("bootstrap.servers").get.toString)
props.put("group.id", kafkaParams.get("group.id").get.toString)
props.put("key.deserializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer")
props.put("value.deserializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer")
val simpleConsumer = new KafkaConsumer[String, String](props)
simpleConsumer.listTopics()
}
then you can wrap this method in a try-catch
sentence to catch the exception.
You can check if the server is running by using this:
ZkClient zkClient = new ZkClient("your_zookeeper_server", 5000 /* ZOOKEEPER_SESSION_TIMEOUT */, 5000 /* ZOOKEEPER_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT */, ZKStringSerializer$.MODULE$);
List<Broker> brokers = scala.collection.JavaConversions.seqAsJavaList(zkUtils.getAllBrokersInCluster());
if (brokers.isEmpty()) {
// No brokers available
} else {
// There are brokers available
}