The Confluent REST Proxy provides a REST API for producing simple messages to the broker
Confluent REST Proxy API Reference | Confluent Documentation <https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka-rest/api.html> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 10:21 AM Steven Miller <st...@idrathernotsay.com> wrote: > What about > https://www.confluent.io/blog/http-and-rest-api-use-cases-and-architecture-with-apache-kafka/? > Would that work for this use case? > > -Steve > > > On Oct 12, 2021, at 8:32 AM, Luke Chen <show...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Pushkar, > >> I would like to know if kafka also provides any REST API which can > > be accessed by the test client (rather than making a TCP connection to > > broker) and then invoking those REST API to produce events onto topics? > > > > --> Sorry, Kafka only provides TCP connection to brokers. > > > > Thank you. > > Luke > > > >> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 8:26 PM Pushkar Deole <pdeole2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I am trying to load test our application that is a consumer of a kafka > >> topic. > >> I want to load test the application wherein my test tool (jmeter > script) is > >> making a connection to kafka broker and then producing events onto topic > >> through producer API. This requires that the test client has > connectivity > >> to the kafka broker through some VNET peering in cloud. > >> > >> However I would like to know if kafka also provides any REST API which > can > >> be accessed by the test client (rather than making a TCP connection to > >> broker) and then invoking those REST API to produce events onto topics? > >> >
