ConfluentKafkaLibrary is a Robot Framework library which wraps up confluent-kafka-python. Library supports more functionality like running more clients based on group_id or running them in threaded mode during the tests, decoding of gathered data etc. (See Examples).

This document explains how to use keywords provided by ConfluentKafkaLibrary. For information about installation, support, and more, please visit the project github page. For more information about Robot Framework, see http://robotframework.org.

Examples

See repo examples.

Basic Consumer with predefined group_id

${group_id}=	Create Consumer	group_id=mygroup	# if group_id is not defined uuid4() is generated
Subscribe Topic	group_id=${group_id}	topics=test_topic
${result}=	Poll	group_id=${group_id}	max_records=5
Log	${result}
Unsubscribe	${group_id}
Close Consumer	${group_id}

More Consumers

${group_id_1}=	Create Consumer
Subscribe Topic	group_id=${group_id_1}	topics=topic1
${group_id_2}=	Create Consumer
Subscribe Topic	group_id=${group_id_2}	topics=topic2
${result_1}=	Poll	group_id=${group_id_1}	max_records=5
${result_2}=	Poll	group_id=${group_id_2}	max_records=2
Unsubscribe	${group_id_1}
Unsubscribe	${group_id_2}
Close Consumer	${group_id_1}
Close Consumer	${group_id_2}

Handle Byte Data From Topic

${messages}=	Poll	group_id=${group_id}	max_records=3	decode_format=utf_8
${json}	Convert String to JSON	${messages}[0]
${jsonValue}	Get value from JSON	${json}	$.key

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