Thanks. Worked like a charm.
On 10/28/15, 9:59 PM, "Grant Henke" <ghe...@cloudera.com> wrote: >The docs don't necessarily make it clear, but if you don't pipe data into >the console-producer, it waits for your typed input (stdin). This is shown >in the docs with the lines just below "*bin/kafka-console-producer.sh >--broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test*" that show: > >This is a message >> This is another message > > >Otherwise, a quick command I like to use when playing around with the >console-producer is: > >*vmstat -w -n -t 1 | kafka-console-producer --broker-list >my-broker-host:9092 --topic my-topic* > >vmstat <http://linux.die.net/man/8/vmstat> and other similar linux >utilities (iostat <http://linux.die.net/man/1/iostat>) are a great way to >get quick and real data for experimentation. > >Thanks, >Grant > >On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Sathyakumar Seshachalam < >sathyakumar_seshacha...@trimble.com> wrote: > >> Hi Grant, >> >> But then my console producer is not sending any message to the broker. >>It >> just prints that warning and keeps waiting. >> >> I have verified that console producer is "not" sending messages by >> actually running console consumer. And a Java client that sends messages >> works and the console consumer is able to read them fine. It is just >>the >> console producer that doesn't seem to work (or at least as per the quick >> start link) >> >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> > On 28-Oct-2015, at 7:34 PM, Grant Henke <ghe...@cloudera.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi Sathya, >> > >> > This was a bug that is now fixed in trunk and will be included in the >> next >> > release. See KAFKA-1711 < >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1711> for >> > more details. >> > >> > You can safely ignore the warning and it should not impact the usage >>of >> the >> > console producer. >> > >> > Thank you, >> > Grant >> > >> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:49 AM, Sathyakumar Seshachalam < >> > sathyakumar_seshacha...@trimble.com> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, Its the same as in the Quick Start tutorial >> >> >> >> bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic >>test >> >> >> >> >> >>> On 10/28/15, 4:06 PM, "Prabhjot Bharaj" <prabhbha...@gmail.com> >>wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hi, >> >>> >> >>> It seems (from VerifiableProperties.scala - >> >> >> >>https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/core/src/main/scala/kafka/util >>s >> >>> /VerifiableProperties.scala#L224) >> >>> that you are providing some property which kafka does not recognise >> >>> Please share the full command that you are trying to use >> >>> >> >>> Regards, >> >>> Prabhjot >> >>> >> >>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Sathyakumar Seshachalam < >> >>> sathyakumar_seshacha...@trimble.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> Am trying to get started on Kafka and following instructions on >> >>>> http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#quickstart. >> >>>> Am setting up on a single broker. I got as far as creating topics >>and >> >>>> listing them, but when I try kafka-console-producer.sh to add >> >>>> messages, I >> >>>> ended up in below error. >> >>>> >> >>>> [2015-10-28 14:14:46,140] WARN Property topic is not valid >> >>>> (kafka.utils.VerifiableProperties). >> >>>> >> >>>> My google searches generally hinted that I should set the right >>value >> >>>> for ³ >> >>>> advertised.host.name², But setting that has no effect. >> >>>> Any help overcoming this will be appreciated. >> >>>> >> >>>> Am running version kafka_2.11-0.8.2.1.tgz on OS X. >> >>>> >> >>>> Regards, >> >>>> Sathya >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> --------------------------------------------------------- >> >>> "There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who >>understand >> >>> binary, and those who don't" >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Grant Henke >> > Software Engineer | Cloudera >> > gr...@cloudera.com | twitter.com/gchenke | linkedin.com/in/granthenke >> > > > >-- >Grant Henke >Software Engineer | Cloudera >gr...@cloudera.com | twitter.com/gchenke | linkedin.com/in/granthenke