jvelilla/wrap_kafka

Eiffel binding for lib kafka C implementation

wrap_kafka

wrap_kafka is an Eiffel binding of librdkafka - the Apache Kafka C/C++ client library using WrapC tool.

librdkafka is a C library implementation of the Apache Kafka protocol, providing Producer, Consumer and Admin clients. It was designed with message delivery reliability and high performance in mind, current figures exceed 1 million msgs/second for the producer and 3 million msgs/second for the consumer.

librdkafka is licensed under the 2-clause BSD license.

Requirements

• WrapC tool.
• librdkafka C API

Download and Install

Linux

$ apt install librdkafka-dev

Windows

Installing librdkafka using vcpkg You can download and install librdkafka using the vcpkg dependency manager:

# Install vcpkg if not already installed
$ git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
$ cd vcpkg
$ ./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh
$ ./vcpkg integrate install

# Install librdkafka
$ vcpkg install librdkafka or vcpkg install librdkafka:x64-windows

To learn more about how to install librdkafka read the following section Kafka Installation

Status

Work in progress.

Examples

How to compile the C library glue code.

Before to use the examples you will need to compile the C glue code, go to

library/generated_wrapper/c/src

and run

finish_freezing --library

It will copy the C lib eif_kafka.a to $ECF_CONFIG_PATH/C/spec/$(ISE_PLATFORM)/lib/ or eif_kafka.lib to $ECF_CONFIG_PATH/C/spec/$ISE_C_COMPILER/$ISE_PLATFORM/lib