Kafka producer iOS and android

2014-10-20 Thread Josh J
hi Is it possible to have iOS and android to run the code needed for Kafka producers ? I want to have mobile clients connect to Kafka broker Thanks, Josh

Re: Kafka producer iOS and android

2014-10-20 Thread Harsha
Hi Josh, Why not have Rest api service running where you post messages from your mobile clients. Rest api can run kafka producers accepting these messages pushing it into kafka brokers. Here is an example where we did similar service for kafka

Re: Kafka producer iOS and android

2014-10-20 Thread Josh J
Thanks for the tip. I would like to avoid hand rolling any code if possible. For example, on Android I would like to ask if people are able to include and use the kafka jars with no problem? And on iOS, if there is a way to include any C or other relevant code. On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:49 AM,

Re: Kafka producer iOS and android

2014-10-20 Thread Joe Stein
What is the use case requiring that? If you try to integrate kafka in the two different mobile platforms you will get many separate development cycles and none will work in many mobile networked environments. You can HTTP/HTTPS POST the same Avro objects (or Thrift or ProtoBuf) from each platform.

Re: Kafka producer iOS and android

2014-10-20 Thread Josh J
What is the use case requiring that? I'm looking for an open source library that I can use in Android and iOS, instead of hand rolling my own. On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Joe Stein joe.st...@stealth.ly wrote: What is the use case requiring that? If you try to integrate kafka in the two

Re: Kafka producer iOS and android

2014-10-20 Thread cac...@gmail.com
I may be out of date, but I believe security measures are only in the proposal stage. Your use case most likely involves sending data from the internet at large to the Kafka instance. This will result in all data sent to the Kafka instance being consumable by the internet at large. This is