kafka-consumer-avro-specific

Consumer Avro Specific

This module demonstrates the following:

• The usage of the Kafka Clients consumer API.
• The usage of Apache Avro and specific records.
• The usage of unit tests with a Mock consumer.

This module consumes records of type <String, KafkaPerson> from a topic named PERSON_TOPIC.

Requirements

To compile and run this demo, you will need the following:

• Java 21
• Maven
• Docker

Running the Application

To run the application manually, please follow the steps below:

• Start a Confluent Platform in a Docker environment.
• Produce records of type <String, KafkaPerson> to a topic named PERSON_TOPIC. You can use the producer Avro Specific to do this.
• Start the consumer.

To run the application in Docker, please use the following command:

docker-compose up -d

This command will start the following services in Docker:

• 1 Kafka broker KRaft
• 1 Schema registry
• 1 Control Center
• 1 producer Avro Specific
• 1 consumer Avro Specific