>> 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 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. You also then have 1 integration cycle then easily maintained and > supported cohesively over all. The Avro/Thrift/ProtoBuf objects and a > HTTP/HTTPS layer, thats it. Wrapping the producer is pretty straight > forward in any language now a days I think and it depends what language and > how you operate production services to pick how to write that producer. > That producer and interface should change much and you have to think a > little about configurations but most all of that is server side depending > on the message. > > /******************************************* > Joe Stein > Founder, Principal Consultant > Big Data Open Source Security LLC > http://www.stealth.ly > Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> > ********************************************/ > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Josh J <joshjd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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, Harsha <ka...@harsha.io> wrote: > > > > > > > > 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 > > > https://github.com/mozilla-metrics/bagheera . This project > used > > > kafka 0.7 but you can see how its implemented. Hope that > helps. > > > -Harsha > > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014, at 08:45 AM, Josh J wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > > >
