Hi I can't get the Kafka/Avro serializer producer example to work.
import org.apache.avro.Schema; import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData; import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord; import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer; import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerConfig; import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerRecord; import java.util.Properties; /** * Created by clint on 3/17/15. */ public class Confluent { public static void main (String[] args){ KafkaProducer<Object, Object> producer; Properties propsKafka = new Properties(); propsKafka.put(ProducerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, "localhost:9092"); propsKafka.put(ProducerConfig.KEY_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, io.confluent.kafka.serializers.KafkaAvroSerializer.class); propsKafka.put(ProducerConfig.VALUE_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, io.confluent.kafka.serializers.KafkaAvroSerializer.class); propsKafka.put("schema.registry.url", "http://localhost:8081"); producer = new KafkaProducer<Object, Object>(propsKafka); String key = "key1"; String userSchema = "{\"type\":\"record\"," + "\"name\":\"myrecord\"," + "\"fields\":[{\"name\":\"f1\",\"type\":\"string\"}]}"; Schema.Parser parser = new Schema.Parser(); Schema schema = parser.parse(userSchema); GenericRecord avroRecord = new GenericData.Record(schema); avroRecord.put("f1", "value4"); ProducerRecord<Object, Object> data = new ProducerRecord<Object, Object>("test", key , avroRecord); producer.send(data); } } The output is: Mar 17, 2015 5:00:31 PM org.apache.kafka.common.config.AbstractConfig logAll INFO: ProducerConfig values: compression.type = none metric.reporters = [] metadata.max.age.ms = 300000 metadata.fetch.timeout.ms = 60000 acks = 1 batch.size = 16384 reconnect.backoff.ms = 10 bootstrap.servers = [localhost:9092] receive.buffer.bytes = 32768 retry.backoff.ms = 100 buffer.memory = 33554432 timeout.ms = 30000 key.serializer = class io.confluent.kafka.serializers.KafkaAvroSerializer retries = 0 max.request.size = 1048576 block.on.buffer.full = true value.serializer = class io.confluent.kafka.serializers.KafkaAvroSerializer metrics.sample.window.ms = 30000 send.buffer.bytes = 131072 max.in.flight.requests.per.connection = 5 metrics.num.samples = 2 linger.ms = 0 client.id = Mar 17, 2015 5:00:32 PM org.apache.kafka.common.config.AbstractConfig logUnused WARNING: The configuration schema.registry.url = null was supplied but isn't a known config. Please help Thanks