Chapter 54. Kafka Both producer and consumer are supported The Kafka component is used for communicating with Apache Kafka message broker. 54.1. Dependencies When using kafka with Red Hat build of Camel Spring Boot make sure to use the following Maven dependency to have support for auto configuration: <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId> <artifactId>camel-kafka-starter</artifactId> </dependency> 54.2. URI format 54.3. Configuring Options Camel components are configured on two levels: Component level Endpoint level 54.3.1. Component Level Options The component level is the highest level. The configurations you define at this level are inherited by all the endpoints. For example, a component can have security settings, credentials for authentication, urls for network connection, and so on. Since components typically have pre-configured defaults for the most common cases, you may need to only configure a few component options, or maybe none at all. You can configure components with Component DSL in a configuration file (application.properties|yaml), or directly with Java code. 54.3.2. Endpoint Level Options At the Endpoint level you have many options, which you can use to configure what you want the endpoint to do. The options are categorized according to whether the endpoint is used as a consumer (from) or as a producer (to) or used for both. You can configure endpoints directly in the endpoint URI as path and query parameters. You can also use Endpoint DSL and DataFormat DSL as type safe ways of configuring endpoints and data formats in Java. When configuring options, use Property Placeholders for urls, port numbers, sensitive information, and other settings. Placeholders allows you to externalize the configuration from your code, giving you more flexible and reusable code. 54.4. Component Options The Kafka component supports 104 options, which are listed below. Name Description Default Type additionalProperties (common) Sets additional properties for either kafka consumer or kafka producer in case they can't be set directly on the camel configurations (e.g: new Kafka properties that are not reflected yet in Camel configurations), the properties have to be prefixed with additionalProperties.. E.g: additionalProperties.transactional.id=12345&additionalProperties.schema.registry.url=http://localhost:8811/avro. Map brokers (common) URL of the Kafka brokers to use. The format is host1:port1,host2:port2, and the list can be a subset of brokers or a VIP pointing to a subset of brokers. This option is known as bootstrap.servers in the Kafka documentation. String clientId (common) The client id is a user-specified string sent in each request to help trace calls. It should logically identify the application making the request. String configuration (common) Allows to pre-configure the Kafka component with common options that the endpoints will reuse. KafkaConfiguration headerFilterStrategy (common) To use a custom HeaderFilterStrategy to filter header to and from Camel message. HeaderFilterStrategy reconnectBackoffMaxMs (common) The maximum amount of time in milliseconds to wait when reconnecting to a broker that has repeatedly failed to connect. If provided, the backoff per host will increase exponentially for each consecutive connection failure, up to this maximum. After calculating the backoff increase, 20% random jitter is added to avoid connection storms. 1000 Integer shutdownTimeout (common) Timeout in milliseconds to wait gracefully for the consumer or producer to shutdown and terminate its worker threads. 30000 int allowManualCommit (consumer) Whether to allow doing manual commits via KafkaManualCommit. If this option is enabled then an instance of KafkaManualCommit is stored on the Exchange message header, which allows end users to access this API and perform manual offset commits via the Kafka consumer. false boolean autoCommitEnable (consumer) If true, periodically commit to ZooKeeper the offset of messages already fetched by the consumer. This committed offset will be used when the process fails as the position from which the new consumer will begin. true Boolean autoCommitIntervalMs (consumer) The frequency in ms that the consumer offsets are committed to zookeeper. 5000 Integer autoCommitOnStop (consumer) Whether to perform an explicit auto commit when the consumer stops to ensure the broker has a commit from the last consumed message. This requires the option autoCommitEnable is turned on. The possible values are: sync, async, or none. And sync is the default value. Enum values: sync async none sync String autoOffsetReset (consumer) What to do when there is no initial offset in ZooKeeper or if an offset is out of range: earliest : automatically reset the offset to the earliest offset latest : automatically reset the offset to the latest offset fail: throw exception to the consumer. Enum values: latest earliest none latest String breakOnFirstError (consumer) This options controls what happens when a consumer is processing an exchange and it fails. If the option is false then the consumer continues to the message and processes it. If the option is true then the consumer breaks out, and will seek back to offset of the message that caused a failure, and then re-attempt to process this message. However this can lead to endless processing of the same message if its bound to fail every time, eg a poison message. Therefore its recommended to deal with that for example by using Camel's error handler. false boolean bridgeErrorHandler (consumer) Allows for bridging the consumer to the Camel routing Error Handler, which mean any exceptions occurred while the consumer is trying to pickup incoming messages, or the likes, will now be processed as a message and handled by the routing Error Handler. By default the consumer will use the org.apache.camel.spi.ExceptionHandler to deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored. false boolean checkCrcs (consumer) Automatically check the CRC32 of the records consumed. This ensures no on-the-wire or on-disk corruption to the messages occurred. This check adds some overhead, so it may be disabled in cases seeking extreme performance. true Boolean commitTimeoutMs (consumer) The maximum time, in milliseconds, that the code will wait for a synchronous commit to complete. 5000 Long consumerRequestTimeoutMs (consumer) The configuration controls the maximum amount of time the client will wait for the response of a request. If the response is not received before the timeout elapses the client will resend the request if necessary or fail the request if retries are exhausted. 40000 Integer consumersCount (consumer) The number of consumers that connect to kafka server. Each consumer is run on a separate thread, that retrieves and process the incoming data. 1 int fetchMaxBytes (consumer) The maximum amount of data the server should return for a fetch request This is not an absolute maximum, if the first message in the first non-empty partition of the fetch is larger than this value, the message will still be returned to ensure that the consumer can make progress. The maximum message size accepted by the broker is defined via message.max.bytes (broker config) or max.message.bytes (topic config). Note that the consumer performs multiple fetches in parallel. 52428800 Integer fetchMinBytes (consumer) The minimum amount of data the server should return for a fetch request. If insufficient data is available the request will wait for that much data to accumulate before answering the request. 1 Integer fetchWaitMaxMs (consumer) The maximum amount of time the server will block before answering the fetch request if there isn't sufficient data to immediately satisfy fetch.min.bytes. 500 Integer groupId (consumer) A string that uniquely identifies the group of consumer processes to which this consumer belongs. By setting the same group id multiple processes indicate that they are all part of the same consumer group. This option is required for consumers. String groupInstanceId (consumer) A unique identifier of the consumer instance provided by the end user. Only non-empty strings are permitted. If set, the consumer is treated as a static member, which means that only one instance with this ID is allowed in the consumer group at any time. This can be used in combination with a larger session timeout to avoid group rebalances caused by transient unavailability (e.g. process restarts). If not set, the consumer will join the group as a dynamic member, which is the traditional behavior. String headerDeserializer (consumer) To use a custom KafkaHeaderDeserializer to deserialize kafka headers values. KafkaHeaderDeserializer heartbeatIntervalMs (consumer) The expected time between heartbeats to the consumer coordinator when using Kafka's group management facilities. Heartbeats are used to ensure that the consumer's session stays active and to facilitate rebalancing when new consumers join or leave the group. The value must be set lower than session.timeout.ms, but typically should be set no higher than 1/3 of that value. It can be adjusted even lower to control the expected time for normal rebalances. 3000 Integer keyDeserializer (consumer) Deserializer class for key that implements the Deserializer interface. org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer String maxPartitionFetchBytes (consumer) The maximum amount of data per-partition the server will return. The maximum total memory used for a request will be #partitions max.partition.fetch.bytes. This size must be at least as large as the maximum message size the server allows or else it is possible for the producer to send messages larger than the consumer can fetch. If that happens, the consumer can get stuck trying to fetch a large message on a certain partition. 1048576 Integer maxPollIntervalMs (consumer) The maximum delay between invocations of poll() when using consumer group management. This places an upper bound on the amount of time that the consumer can be idle before fetching more records. If poll() is not called before expiration of this timeout, then the consumer is considered failed and the group will rebalance in order to reassign the partitions to another member. Long maxPollRecords (consumer) The maximum number of records returned in a single call to poll(). 500 Integer offsetRepository (consumer) The offset repository to use in order to locally store the offset of each partition of the topic. Defining one will disable the autocommit. StateRepository partitionAssignor (consumer) The class name of the partition assignment strategy that the client will use to distribute partition ownership amongst consumer instances when group management is used. org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.RangeAssignor String pollOnError (consumer) What to do if kafka threw an exception while polling for new messages. Will by default use the value from the component configuration unless an explicit value has been configured on the endpoint level. DISCARD will discard the message and continue to poll message. ERROR_HANDLER will use Camel's error handler to process the exception, and afterwards continue to poll message. RECONNECT will re-connect the consumer and try poll the message again RETRY will let the consumer retry polling the same message again STOP will stop the consumer (have to be manually started/restarted if the consumer should be able to consume messages again). Enum values: DISCARD ERROR_HANDLER RECONNECT RETRY STOP ERROR_HANDLER PollOnError pollTimeoutMs (consumer) The timeout used when polling the KafkaConsumer. 5000 Long resumeStrategy (consumer) This option allows the user to set a custom resume strategy. The resume strategy is executed when partitions are assigned (i.e.: when connecting or reconnecting). It allows implementations to customize how to resume operations and serve as more flexible alternative to the seekTo and the offsetRepository mechanisms. See the KafkaConsumerResumeStrategy for implementation details. This option does not affect the auto commit setting. It is likely that implementations using this setting will also want to evaluate using the manual commit option along with this. KafkaConsumerResumeStrategy seekTo (consumer) Set if KafkaConsumer will read from beginning or end on startup: beginning : read from beginning end : read from end This is replacing the earlier property seekToBeginning. Enum values: beginning end String sessionTimeoutMs (consumer) The timeout used to detect failures when using Kafka's group management facilities. 10000 Integer specificAvroReader (consumer) This enables the use of a specific Avro reader for use with the Confluent Platform schema registry and the io.confluent.kafka.serializers.KafkaAvroDeserializer. This option is only available in the Confluent Platform (not standard Apache Kafka). false boolean topicIsPattern (consumer) Whether the topic is a pattern (regular expression). This can be used to subscribe to dynamic number of topics matching the pattern. false boolean valueDeserializer (consumer) Deserializer class for value that implements the Deserializer interface. org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer String kafkaManualCommitFactory (consumer (advanced)) Autowired Factory to use for creating KafkaManualCommit instances. This allows to plugin a custom factory to create custom KafkaManualCommit instances in case special logic is needed when doing manual commits that deviates from the default implementation that comes out of the box. KafkaManualCommitFactory pollExceptionStrategy (consumer (advanced)) Autowired To use a custom strategy with the consumer to control how to handle exceptions thrown from the Kafka broker while pooling messages. PollExceptionStrategy bufferMemorySize (producer) The total bytes of memory the producer can use to buffer records waiting to be sent to the server. If records are sent faster than they can be delivered to the server the producer will either block or throw an exception based on the preference specified by block.on.buffer.full.This setting should correspond roughly to the total memory the producer will use, but is not a hard bound since not all memory the producer uses is used for buffering. Some additional memory will be used for compression (if compression is enabled) as well as for maintaining in-flight requests. 33554432 Integer compressionCodec (producer) This parameter allows you to specify the compression codec for all data generated by this producer. Valid values are none, gzip and snappy. Enum values: none gzip snappy lz4 none String connectionMaxIdleMs (producer) Close idle connections after the number of milliseconds specified by this config. 540000 Integer deliveryTimeoutMs (producer) An upper bound on the time to report success or failure after a call to send() returns. This limits the total time that a record will be delayed prior to sending, the time to await acknowledgement from the broker (if expected), and the time allowed for retriable send failures. 120000 Integer enableIdempotence (producer) If set to 'true' the producer will ensure that exactly one copy of each message is written in the stream. If 'false', producer retries may write duplicates of the retried message in the stream. If set to true this option will require max.in.flight.requests.per.connection to be set to 1 and retries cannot be zero and additionally acks must be set to 'all'. false boolean headerSerializer (producer) To use a custom KafkaHeaderSerializer to serialize kafka headers values. KafkaHeaderSerializer key (producer) The record key (or null if no key is specified). If this option has been configured then it take precedence over header KafkaConstants#KEY. String keySerializer (producer) The serializer class for keys (defaults to the same as for messages if nothing is given). org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer String lazyStartProducer (producer) Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel's routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing. false boolean lingerMs (producer) The producer groups together any records that arrive in between request transmissions into a single batched request. Normally this occurs only under load when records arrive faster than they can be sent out. However in some circumstances the client may want to reduce the number of requests even under moderate load. This setting accomplishes this by adding a small amount of artificial delay that is, rather than immediately sending out a record the producer will wait for up to the given delay to allow other records to be sent so that the sends can be batched together. This can be thought of as analogous to Nagle's algorithm in TCP. This setting gives the upper bound on the delay for batching: once we get batch.size worth of records for a partition it will be sent immediately regardless of this setting, however if we have fewer than this many bytes accumulated for this partition we will 'linger' for the specified time waiting for more records to show up. This setting defaults to 0 (i.e. no delay). Setting linger.ms=5, for example, would have the effect of reducing the number of requests sent but would add up to 5ms of latency to records sent in the absense of load. 0 Integer maxBlockMs (producer) The configuration controls how long sending to kafka will block. These methods can be blocked for multiple reasons. For e.g: buffer full, metadata unavailable.This configuration imposes maximum limit on the total time spent in fetching metadata, serialization of key and value, partitioning and allocation of buffer memory when doing a send(). In case of partitionsFor(), this configuration imposes a maximum time threshold on waiting for metadata. 60000 Integer maxInFlightRequest (producer) The maximum number of unacknowledged requests the client will send on a single connection before blocking. Note that if this setting is set to be greater than 1 and there are failed sends, there is a risk of message re-ordering due to retries (i.e., if retries are enabled). 5 Integer maxRequestSize (producer) The maximum size of a request. This is also effectively a cap on the maximum record size. Note that the server has its own cap on record size which may be different from this. This setting will limit the number of record batches the producer will send in a single request to avoid sending huge requests. 1048576 Integer metadataMaxAgeMs (producer) The period of time in milliseconds after which we force a refresh of metadata even if we haven't seen any partition leadership changes to proactively discover any new brokers or partitions. 300000 Integer metricReporters (producer) A list of classes to use as metrics reporters. Implementing the MetricReporter interface allows plugging in classes that will be notified of new metric creation. The JmxReporter is always included to register JMX statistics. String metricsSampleWindowMs (producer) The number of samples maintained to compute metrics. 30000 Integer noOfMetricsSample (producer) The number of samples maintained to compute metrics. 2 Integer partitioner (producer) The partitioner class for partitioning messages amongst sub-topics. The default partitioner is based on the hash of the key. org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.DefaultPartitioner String partitionKey (producer) The partition to which the record will be sent (or null if no partition was specified). If this option has been configured then it take precedence over header KafkaConstants#PARTITION_KEY. Integer producerBatchSize (producer) The producer will attempt to batch records together into fewer requests whenever multiple records are being sent to the same partition. This helps performance on both the client and the server. This configuration controls the default batch size in bytes. No attempt will be made to batch records larger than this size.Requests sent to brokers will contain multiple batches, one for each partition with data available to be sent.A small batch size will make batching less common and may reduce throughput (a batch size of zero will disable batching entirely). A very large batch size may use memory a bit more wastefully as we will always allocate a buffer of the specified batch size in anticipation of additional records. 16384 Integer queueBufferingMaxMessages (producer) The maximum number of unsent messages that can be queued up the producer when using async mode before either the producer must be blocked or data must be dropped. 10000 Integer receiveBufferBytes (producer) The size of the TCP receive buffer (SO_RCVBUF) to use when reading data. 65536 Integer reconnectBackoffMs (producer) The amount of time to wait before attempting to reconnect to a given host. This avoids repeatedly connecting to a host in a tight loop. This backoff applies to all requests sent by the consumer to the broker. 50 Integer recordMetadata (producer) Whether the producer should store the RecordMetadata results from sending to Kafka. The results are stored in a List containing the RecordMetadata metadata's. The list is stored on a header with the key KafkaConstants#KAFKA_RECORDMETA. true boolean requestRequiredAcks (producer) The number of acknowledgments the producer requires the leader to have received before considering a request complete. This controls the durability of records that are sent. The following settings are common: acks=0 If set to zero then the producer will not wait for any acknowledgment from the server at all. The record will be immediately added to the socket buffer and considered sent. No guarantee can be made that the server has received the record in this case, and the retries configuration will not take effect (as the client won't generally know of any failures). The offset given back for each record will always be set to -1. acks=1 This will mean the leader will write the record to its local log but will respond without awaiting full acknowledgement from all followers. In this case should the leader fail immediately after acknowledging the record but before the followers have replicated it then the record will be lost. acks=all This means the leader will wait for the full set of in-sync replicas to acknowledge the record. This guarantees that the record will not be lost as long as at least one in-sync replica remains alive. This is the strongest available guarantee. Enum values: -1 0 1 all 1 String requestTimeoutMs (producer) The amount of time the broker will wait trying to meet the request.required.acks requirement before sending back an error to the client. 30000 Integer retries (producer) Setting a value greater than zero will cause the client to resend any record whose send fails with a potentially transient error. Note that this retry is no different than if the client resent the record upon receiving the error. Allowing retries will potentially change the ordering of records because if two records are sent to a single partition, and the first fails and is retried but the second succeeds, then the second record may appear first. 0 Integer retryBackoffMs (producer) Before each retry, the producer refreshes the metadata of relevant topics to see if a new leader has been elected. Since leader election takes a bit of time, this property specifies the amount of time that the producer waits before refreshing the metadata. 100 Integer sendBufferBytes (producer) Socket write buffer size. 131072 Integer valueSerializer (producer) The serializer class for messages. org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer String workerPool (producer) To use a custom worker pool for continue routing Exchange after kafka server has acknowledge the message that was sent to it from KafkaProducer using asynchronous non-blocking processing. If using this option then you must handle the lifecycle of the thread pool to shut the pool down when no longer needed. ExecutorService workerPoolCoreSize (producer) Number of core threads for the worker pool for continue routing Exchange after kafka server has acknowledge the message that was sent to it from KafkaProducer using asynchronous non-blocking processing. 10 Integer workerPoolMaxSize (producer) Maximum number of threads for the worker pool for continue routing Exchange after kafka server has acknowledge the message that was sent to it from KafkaProducer using asynchronous non-blocking processing. 20 Integer autowiredEnabled (advanced) Whether autowiring is enabled. This is used for automatic autowiring options (the option must be marked as autowired) by looking up in the registry to find if there is a single instance of matching type, which then gets configured on the component. This can be used for automatic configuring JDBC data sources, JMS connection factories, AWS Clients, etc. true boolean kafkaClientFactory (advanced) Autowired Factory to use for creating org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer and org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer instances. This allows to configure a custom factory to create instances with logic that extends the vanilla Kafka clients. KafkaClientFactory synchronous (advanced) Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used. false boolean schemaRegistryURL (confluent) URL of the Confluent Platform schema registry servers to use. The format is host1:port1,host2:port2. This is known as schema.registry.url in the Confluent Platform documentation. This option is only available in the Confluent Platform (not standard Apache Kafka). String interceptorClasses (monitoring) Sets interceptors for producer or consumers. Producer interceptors have to be classes implementing org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerInterceptor Consumer interceptors have to be classes implementing org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerInterceptor Note that if you use Producer interceptor on a consumer it will throw a class cast exception in runtime. String kerberosBeforeReloginMinTime (security) Login thread sleep time between refresh attempts. 60000 Integer kerberosInitCmd (security) Kerberos kinit command path. Default is /usr/bin/kinit. /usr/bin/kinit String kerberosPrincipalToLocalRules (security) A list of rules for mapping from principal names to short names (typically operating system usernames). The rules are evaluated in order and the first rule that matches a principal name is used to map it to a short name. Any later rules in the list are ignored. By default, principal names of the form {username}/{hostname}{REALM} are mapped to {username}. For more details on the format please see the security authorization and acls documentation.. Multiple values can be separated by comma. DEFAULT String kerberosRenewJitter (security) Percentage of random jitter added to the renewal time. 0.05 Double kerberosRenewWindowFactor (security) Login thread will sleep until the specified window factor of time from last refresh to ticket's expiry has been reached, at which time it will try to renew the ticket. 0.8 Double saslJaasConfig (security) Expose the kafka sasl.jaas.config parameter Example: org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username=USERNAME password=PASSWORD;. String saslKerberosServiceName (security) The Kerberos principal name that Kafka runs as. This can be defined either in Kafka's JAAS config or in Kafka's config. String saslMechanism (security) The Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Mechanism used. For the valid values see . GSSAPI String securityProtocol (security) Protocol used to communicate with brokers. SASL_PLAINTEXT, PLAINTEXT and SSL are supported. PLAINTEXT String sslCipherSuites (security) A list of cipher suites. This is a named combination of authentication, encryption, MAC and key exchange algorithm used to negotiate the security settings for a network connection using TLS or SSL network protocol.By default all the available cipher suites are supported. String sslContextParameters (security) SSL configuration using a Camel SSLContextParameters object. If configured it's applied before the other SSL endpoint parameters. NOTE: Kafka only supports loading keystore from file locations, so prefix the location with file: in the KeyStoreParameters.resource option. SSLContextParameters sslEnabledProtocols (security) The list of protocols enabled for SSL connections. TLSv1.2, TLSv1.1 and TLSv1 are enabled by default. String sslEndpointAlgorithm (security) The endpoint identification algorithm to validate server hostname using server certificate. https String sslKeymanagerAlgorithm (security) The algorithm used by key manager factory for SSL connections. Default value is the key manager factory algorithm configured for the Java Virtual Machine. SunX509 String sslKeyPassword (security) The password of the private key in the key store file. This is optional for client. String sslKeystoreLocation (security) The location of the key store file. This is optional for client and can be used for two-way authentication for client. String sslKeystorePassword (security) The store password for the key store file.This is optional for client and only needed if ssl.keystore.location is configured. String sslKeystoreType (security) The file format of the key store file. This is optional for client. Default value is JKS. JKS String sslProtocol (security) The SSL protocol used to generate the SSLContext. Default setting is TLS, which is fine for most cases. Allowed values in recent JVMs are TLS, TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2. SSL, SSLv2 and SSLv3 may be supported in older JVMs, but their usage is discouraged due to known security vulnerabilities. String sslProvider (security) The name of the security provider used for SSL connections. Default value is the default security provider of the JVM. String sslTrustmanagerAlgorithm (security) The algorithm used by trust manager factory for SSL connections. Default value is the trust manager factory algorithm configured for the Java Virtual Machine. PKIX String sslTruststoreLocation (security) The location of the trust store file. String sslTruststorePassword (security) The password for the trust store file. String sslTruststoreType (security) The file format of the trust store file. Default value is JKS. JKS String useGlobalSslContextParameters (security) Enable usage of global SSL context parameters. false boolean 54.5. Endpoint Options The Kafka endpoint is configured using URI syntax: with the following path and query parameters: 54.5.1. Path Parameters (1 parameters) Name Description Default Type topic (common) Required Name of the topic to use. On the consumer you can use comma to separate multiple topics. A producer can only send a message to a single topic. String 54.5.2. Query Parameters (102 parameters) Name Description Default Type additionalProperties (common) Sets additional properties for either kafka consumer or kafka producer in case they can't be set directly on the camel configurations (e.g: new Kafka properties that are not reflected yet in Camel configurations), the properties have to be prefixed with additionalProperties.. E.g: additionalProperties.transactional.id=12345&additionalProperties.schema.registry.url=http://localhost:8811/avro. Map brokers (common) URL of the Kafka brokers to use. The format is host1:port1,host2:port2, and the list can be a subset of brokers or a VIP pointing to a subset of brokers. This option is known as bootstrap.servers in the Kafka documentation. String clientId (common) The client id is a user-specified string sent in each request to help trace calls. It should logically identify the application making the request. String headerFilterStrategy (common) To use a custom HeaderFilterStrategy to filter header to and from Camel message. HeaderFilterStrategy reconnectBackoffMaxMs (common) The maximum amount of time in milliseconds to wait when reconnecting to a broker that has repeatedly failed to connect. If provided, the backoff per host will increase exponentially for each consecutive connection failure, up to this maximum. After calculating the backoff increase, 20% random jitter is added to avoid connection storms. 1000 Integer shutdownTimeout (common) Timeout in milliseconds to wait gracefully for the consumer or producer to shutdown and terminate its worker threads. 30000 int allowManualCommit (consumer) Whether to allow doing manual commits via KafkaManualCommit. If this option is enabled then an instance of KafkaManualCommit is stored on the Exchange message header, which allows end users to access this API and perform manual offset commits via the Kafka consumer. false boolean autoCommitEnable (consumer) If true, periodically commit to ZooKeeper the offset of messages already fetched by the consumer. This committed offset will be used when the process fails as the position from which the new consumer will begin. true Boolean autoCommitIntervalMs (consumer) The frequency in ms that the consumer offsets are committed to zookeeper. 5000 Integer autoCommitOnStop (consumer) Whether to perform an explicit auto commit when the consumer stops to ensure the broker has a commit from the last consumed message. This requires the option autoCommitEnable is turned on. The possible values are: sync, async, or none. And sync is the default value. Enum values: sync async none sync String autoOffsetReset (consumer) What to do when there is no initial offset in ZooKeeper or if an offset is out of range: earliest : automatically reset the offset to the earliest offset latest : automatically reset the offset to the latest offset fail: throw exception to the consumer. Enum values: latest earliest none latest String breakOnFirstError (consumer) This options controls what happens when a consumer is processing an exchange and it fails. If the option is false then the consumer continues to the message and processes it. If the option is true then the consumer breaks out, and will seek back to offset of the message that caused a failure, and then re-attempt to process this message. However this can lead to endless processing of the same message if its bound to fail every time, eg a poison message. Therefore its recommended to deal with that for example by using Camel's error handler. false boolean bridgeErrorHandler (consumer) Allows for bridging the consumer to the Camel routing Error Handler, which mean any exceptions occurred while the consumer is trying to pickup incoming messages, or the likes, will now be processed as a message and handled by the routing Error Handler. By default the consumer will use the org.apache.camel.spi.ExceptionHandler to deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored. false boolean checkCrcs (consumer) Automatically check the CRC32 of the records consumed. This ensures no on-the-wire or on-disk corruption to the messages occurred. This check adds some overhead, so it may be disabled in cases seeking extreme performance. true Boolean commitTimeoutMs (consumer) The maximum time, in milliseconds, that the code will wait for a synchronous commit to complete. 5000 Long consumerRequestTimeoutMs (consumer) The configuration controls the maximum amount of time the client will wait for the response of a request. If the response is not received before the timeout elapses the client will resend the request if necessary or fail the request if retries are exhausted. 40000 Integer consumersCount (consumer) The number of consumers that connect to kafka server. Each consumer is run on a separate thread, that retrieves and process the incoming data. 1 int fetchMaxBytes (consumer) The maximum amount of data the server should return for a fetch request This is not an absolute maximum, if the first message in the first non-empty partition of the fetch is larger than this value, the message will still be returned to ensure that the consumer can make progress. The maximum message size accepted by the broker is defined via message.max.bytes (broker config) or max.message.bytes (topic config). Note that the consumer performs multiple fetches in parallel. 52428800 Integer fetchMinBytes (consumer) The minimum amount of data the server should return for a fetch request. If insufficient data is available the request will wait for that much data to accumulate before answering the request. 1 Integer fetchWaitMaxMs (consumer) The maximum amount of time the server will block before answering the fetch request if there isn't sufficient data to immediately satisfy fetch.min.bytes. 500 Integer groupId (consumer) A string that uniquely identifies the group of consumer processes to which this consumer belongs. By setting the same group id multiple processes indicate that they are all part of the same consumer group. This option is required for consumers. String groupInstanceId (consumer) A unique identifier of the consumer instance provided by the end user. Only non-empty strings are permitted. If set, the consumer is treated as a static member, which means that only one instance with this ID is allowed in the consumer group at any time. This can be used in combination with a larger session timeout to avoid group rebalances caused by transient unavailability (e.g. process restarts). If not set, the consumer will join the group as a dynamic member, which is the traditional behavior. String headerDeserializer (consumer) To use a custom KafkaHeaderDeserializer to deserialize kafka headers values. KafkaHeaderDeserializer heartbeatIntervalMs (consumer) The expected time between heartbeats to the consumer coordinator when using Kafka's group management facilities. Heartbeats are used to ensure that the consumer's session stays active and to facilitate rebalancing when new consumers join or leave the group. The value must be set lower than session.timeout.ms, but typically should be set no higher than 1/3 of that value. It can be adjusted even lower to control the expected time for normal rebalances. 3000 Integer keyDeserializer (consumer) Deserializer class for key that implements the Deserializer interface. org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer String maxPartitionFetchBytes (consumer) The maximum amount of data per-partition the server will return. The maximum total memory used for a request will be #partitions max.partition.fetch.bytes. This size must be at least as large as the maximum message size the server allows or else it is possible for the producer to send messages larger than the consumer can fetch. If that happens, the consumer can get stuck trying to fetch a large message on a certain partition. 1048576 Integer maxPollIntervalMs (consumer) The maximum delay between invocations of poll() when using consumer group management. This places an upper bound on the amount of time that the consumer can be idle before fetching more records. If poll() is not called before expiration of this timeout, then the consumer is considered failed and the group will rebalance in order to reassign the partitions to another member. Long maxPollRecords (consumer) The maximum number of records returned in a single call to poll(). 500 Integer offsetRepository (consumer) The offset repository to use in order to locally store the offset of each partition of the topic. Defining one will disable the autocommit. StateRepository partitionAssignor (consumer) The class name of the partition assignment strategy that the client will use to distribute partition ownership amongst consumer instances when group management is used. org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.RangeAssignor String pollOnError (consumer) What to do if kafka threw an exception while polling for new messages. Will by default use the value from the component configuration unless an explicit value has been configured on the endpoint level. DISCARD will discard the message and continue to poll message. ERROR_HANDLER will use Camel's error handler to process the exception, and afterwards continue to poll message. RECONNECT will re-connect the consumer and try poll the message again RETRY will let the consumer retry polling the same message again STOP will stop the consumer (have to be manually started/restarted if the consumer should be able to consume messages again). Enum values: DISCARD ERROR_HANDLER RECONNECT RETRY STOP ERROR_HANDLER PollOnError pollTimeoutMs (consumer) The timeout used when polling the KafkaConsumer. 5000 Long resumeStrategy (consumer) This option allows the user to set a custom resume strategy. The resume strategy is executed when partitions are assigned (i.e.: when connecting or reconnecting). It allows implementations to customize how to resume operations and serve as more flexible alternative to the seekTo and the offsetRepository mechanisms. See the KafkaConsumerResumeStrategy for implementation details. This option does not affect the auto commit setting. It is likely that implementations using this setting will also want to evaluate using the manual commit option along with this. KafkaConsumerResumeStrategy seekTo (consumer) Set if KafkaConsumer will read from beginning or end on startup: beginning : read from beginning end : read from end This is replacing the earlier property seekToBeginning. Enum values: beginning end String sessionTimeoutMs (consumer) The timeout used to detect failures when using Kafka's group management facilities. 10000 Integer specificAvroReader (consumer) This enables the use of a specific Avro reader for use with the Confluent Platform schema registry and the io.confluent.kafka.serializers.KafkaAvroDeserializer. This option is only available in the Confluent Platform (not standard Apache Kafka). false boolean topicIsPattern (consumer) Whether the topic is a pattern (regular expression). This can be used to subscribe to dynamic number of topics matching the pattern. false boolean valueDeserializer (consumer) Deserializer class for value that implements the Deserializer interface. org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer String exceptionHandler (consumer (advanced)) To let the consumer use a custom ExceptionHandler. Notice if the option bridgeErrorHandler is enabled then this option is not in use. By default the consumer will deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored. ExceptionHandler exchangePattern (consumer (advanced)) Sets the exchange pattern when the consumer creates an exchange. Enum values: InOnly InOut InOptionalOut ExchangePattern kafkaManualCommitFactory (consumer (advanced)) Factory to use for creating KafkaManualCommit instances. This allows to plugin a custom factory to create custom KafkaManualCommit instances in case special logic is needed when doing manual commits that deviates from the default implementation that comes out of the box. KafkaManualCommitFactory bufferMemorySize (producer) The total bytes of memory the producer can use to buffer records waiting to be sent to the server. If records are sent faster than they can be delivered to the server the producer will either block or throw an exception based on the preference specified by block.on.buffer.full.This setting should correspond roughly to the total memory the producer will use, but is not a hard bound since not all memory the producer uses is used for buffering. Some additional memory will be used for compression (if compression is enabled) as well as for maintaining in-flight requests. 33554432 Integer compressionCodec (producer) This parameter allows you to specify the compression codec for all data generated by this producer. Valid values are none, gzip and snappy. Enum values: none gzip snappy lz4 none String connectionMaxIdleMs (producer) Close idle connections after the number of milliseconds specified by this config. 540000 Integer deliveryTimeoutMs (producer) An upper bound on the time to report success or failure after a call to send() returns. This limits the total time that a record will be delayed prior to sending, the time to await acknowledgement from the broker (if expected), and the time allowed for retriable send failures. 120000 Integer enableIdempotence (producer) If set to 'true' the producer will ensure that exactly one copy of each message is written in the stream. If 'false', producer retries may write duplicates of the retried message in the stream. If set to true this option will require max.in.flight.requests.per.connection to be set to 1 and retries cannot be zero and additionally acks must be set to 'all'. false boolean headerSerializer (producer) To use a custom KafkaHeaderSerializer to serialize kafka headers values. KafkaHeaderSerializer key (producer) The record key (or null if no key is specified). If this option has been configured then it take precedence over header KafkaConstants#KEY. String keySerializer (producer) The serializer class for keys (defaults to the same as for messages if nothing is given). org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer String lazyStartProducer (producer) Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel's routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing. false boolean lingerMs (producer) The producer groups together any records that arrive in between request transmissions into a single batched request. Normally this occurs only under load when records arrive faster than they can be sent out. However in some circumstances the client may want to reduce the number of requests even under moderate load. This setting accomplishes this by adding a small amount of artificial delay that is, rather than immediately sending out a record the producer will wait for up to the given delay to allow other records to be sent so that the sends can be batched together. This can be thought of as analogous to Nagle's algorithm in TCP. This setting gives the upper bound on the delay for batching: once we get batch.size worth of records for a partition it will be sent immediately regardless of this setting, however if we have fewer than this many bytes accumulated for this partition we will 'linger' for the specified time waiting for more records to show up. This setting defaults to 0 (i.e. no delay). Setting linger.ms=5, for example, would have the effect of reducing the number of requests sent but would add up to 5ms of latency to records sent in the absense of load. 0 Integer maxBlockMs (producer) The configuration controls how long sending to kafka will block. These methods can be blocked for multiple reasons. For e.g: buffer full, metadata unavailable.This configuration imposes maximum limit on the total time spent in fetching metadata, serialization of key and value, partitioning and allocation of buffer memory when doing a send(). In case of partitionsFor(), this configuration imposes a maximum time threshold on waiting for metadata. 60000 Integer maxInFlightRequest (producer) The maximum number of unacknowledged requests the client will send on a single connection before blocking. Note that if this setting is set to be greater than 1 and there are failed sends, there is a risk of message re-ordering due to retries (i.e., if retries are enabled). 5 Integer maxRequestSize (producer) The maximum size of a request. This is also effectively a cap on the maximum record size. Note that the server has its own cap on record size which may be different from this. This setting will limit the number of record batches the producer will send in a single request to avoid sending huge requests. 1048576 Integer metadataMaxAgeMs (producer) The period of time in milliseconds after which we force a refresh of metadata even if we haven't seen any partition leadership changes to proactively discover any new brokers or partitions. 300000 Integer metricReporters (producer) A list of classes to use as metrics reporters. Implementing the MetricReporter interface allows plugging in classes that will be notified of new metric creation. The JmxReporter is always included to register JMX statistics. String metricsSampleWindowMs (producer) The number of samples maintained to compute metrics. 30000 Integer noOfMetricsSample (producer) The number of samples maintained to compute metrics. 2 Integer partitioner (producer) The partitioner class for partitioning messages amongst sub-topics. The default partitioner is based on the hash of the key. org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.DefaultPartitioner String partitionKey (producer) The partition to which the record will be sent (or null if no partition was specified). If this option has been configured then it take precedence over header KafkaConstants#PARTITION_KEY. Integer producerBatchSize (producer) The producer will attempt to batch records together into fewer requests whenever multiple records are being sent to the same partition. This helps performance on both the client and the server. This configuration controls the default batch size in bytes. No attempt will be made to batch records larger than this size.Requests sent to brokers will contain multiple batches, one for each partition with data available to be sent.A small batch size will make batching less common and may reduce throughput (a batch size of zero will disable batching entirely). A very large batch size may use memory a bit more wastefully as we will always allocate a buffer of the specified batch size in anticipation of additional records. 16384 Integer queueBufferingMaxMessages (producer) The maximum number of unsent messages that can be queued up the producer when using async mode before either the producer must be blocked or data must be dropped. 10000 Integer receiveBufferBytes (producer) The size of the TCP receive buffer (SO_RCVBUF) to use when reading data. 65536 Integer reconnectBackoffMs (producer) The amount of time to wait before attempting to reconnect to a given host. This avoids repeatedly connecting to a host in a tight loop. This backoff applies to all requests sent by the consumer to the broker. 50 Integer recordMetadata (producer) Whether the producer should store the RecordMetadata results from sending to Kafka. The results are stored in a List containing the RecordMetadata metadata's. The list is stored on a header with the key KafkaConstants#KAFKA_RECORDMETA. true boolean requestRequiredAcks (producer) The number of acknowledgments the producer requires the leader to have received before considering a request complete. This controls the durability of records that are sent. The following settings are common: acks=0 If set to zero then the producer will not wait for any acknowledgment from the server at all. The record will be immediately added to the socket buffer and considered sent. No guarantee can be made that the server has received the record in this case, and the retries configuration will not take effect (as the client won't generally know of any failures). The offset given back for each record will always be set to -1. acks=1 This will mean the leader will write the record to its local log but will respond without awaiting full acknowledgement from all followers. In this case should the leader fail immediately after acknowledging the record but before the followers have replicated it then the record will be lost. acks=all This means the leader will wait for the full set of in-sync replicas to acknowledge the record. This guarantees that the record will not be lost as long as at least one in-sync replica remains alive. This is the strongest available guarantee. Enum values: -1 0 1 all 1 String requestTimeoutMs (producer) The amount of time the broker will wait trying to meet the request.required.acks requirement before sending back an error to the client. 30000 Integer retries (producer) Setting a value greater than zero will cause the client to resend any record whose send fails with a potentially transient error. Note that this retry is no different than if the client resent the record upon receiving the error. Allowing retries will potentially change the ordering of records because if two records are sent to a single partition, and the first fails and is retried but the second succeeds, then the second record may appear first. 0 Integer retryBackoffMs (producer) Before each retry, the producer refreshes the metadata of relevant topics to see if a new leader has been elected. Since leader election takes a bit of time, this property specifies the amount of time that the producer waits before refreshing the metadata. 100 Integer sendBufferBytes (producer) Socket write buffer size. 131072 Integer valueSerializer (producer) The serializer class for messages. org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer String workerPool (producer) To use a custom worker pool for continue routing Exchange after kafka server has acknowledge the message that was sent to it from KafkaProducer using asynchronous non-blocking processing. If using this option then you must handle the lifecycle of the thread pool to shut the pool down when no longer needed. ExecutorService workerPoolCoreSize (producer) Number of core threads for the worker pool for continue routing Exchange after kafka server has acknowledge the message that was sent to it from KafkaProducer using asynchronous non-blocking processing. 10 Integer workerPoolMaxSize (producer) Maximum number of threads for the worker pool for continue routing Exchange after kafka server has acknowledge the message that was sent to it from KafkaProducer using asynchronous non-blocking processing. 20 Integer kafkaClientFactory (advanced) Factory to use for creating org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer and org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer instances. This allows to configure a custom factory to create instances with logic that extends the vanilla Kafka clients. KafkaClientFactory synchronous (advanced) Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used. false boolean schemaRegistryURL (confluent) URL of the Confluent Platform schema registry servers to use. The format is host1:port1,host2:port2. This is known as schema.registry.url in the Confluent Platform documentation. This option is only available in the Confluent Platform (not standard Apache Kafka). String interceptorClasses (monitoring) Sets interceptors for producer or consumers. Producer interceptors have to be classes implementing org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerInterceptor Consumer interceptors have to be classes implementing org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerInterceptor Note that if you use Producer interceptor on a consumer it will throw a class cast exception in runtime. String kerberosBeforeReloginMinTime (security) Login thread sleep time between refresh attempts. 60000 Integer kerberosInitCmd (security) Kerberos kinit command path. Default is /usr/bin/kinit. /usr/bin/kinit String kerberosPrincipalToLocalRules (security) A list of rules for mapping from principal names to short names (typically operating system usernames). The rules are evaluated in order and the first rule that matches a principal name is used to map it to a short name. Any later rules in the list are ignored. By default, principal names of the form {username}/{hostname}{REALM} are mapped to {username}. For more details on the format please see the security authorization and acls documentation.. Multiple values can be separated by comma. DEFAULT String kerberosRenewJitter (security) Percentage of random jitter added to the renewal time. 0.05 Double kerberosRenewWindowFactor (security) Login thread will sleep until the specified window factor of time from last refresh to ticket's expiry has been reached, at which time it will try to renew the ticket. 0.8 Double saslJaasConfig (security) Expose the kafka sasl.jaas.config parameter Example: org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username=USERNAME password=PASSWORD;. String saslKerberosServiceName (security) The Kerberos principal name that Kafka runs as. This can be defined either in Kafka's JAAS config or in Kafka's config. String saslMechanism (security) The Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Mechanism used. For the valid values see . GSSAPI String securityProtocol (security) Protocol used to communicate with brokers. SASL_PLAINTEXT, PLAINTEXT and SSL are supported. PLAINTEXT String sslCipherSuites (security) A list of cipher suites. This is a named combination of authentication, encryption, MAC and key exchange algorithm used to negotiate the security settings for a network connection using TLS or SSL network protocol.By default all the available cipher suites are supported. String sslContextParameters (security) SSL configuration using a Camel SSLContextParameters object. If configured it's applied before the other SSL endpoint parameters. NOTE: Kafka only supports loading keystore from file locations, so prefix the location with file: in the KeyStoreParameters.resource option. SSLContextParameters sslEnabledProtocols (security) The list of protocols enabled for SSL connections. TLSv1.2, TLSv1.1 and TLSv1 are enabled by default. String sslEndpointAlgorithm (security) The endpoint identification algorithm to validate server hostname using server certificate. https String sslKeymanagerAlgorithm (security) The algorithm used by key manager factory for SSL connections. Default value is the key manager factory algorithm configured for the Java Virtual Machine. SunX509 String sslKeyPassword (security) The password of the private key in the key store file. This is optional for client. String sslKeystoreLocation (security) The location of the key store file. This is optional for client and can be used for two-way authentication for client. String sslKeystorePassword (security) The store password for the key store file.This is optional for client and only needed if ssl.keystore.location is configured. String sslKeystoreType (security) The file format of the key store file. This is optional for client. Default value is JKS. JKS String sslProtocol (security) The SSL protocol used to generate the SSLContext. Default setting is TLS, which is fine for most cases. Allowed values in recent JVMs are TLS, TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2. SSL, SSLv2 and SSLv3 may be supported in older JVMs, but their usage is discouraged due to known security vulnerabilities. String sslProvider (security) The name of the security provider used for SSL connections. Default value is the default security provider of the JVM. String sslTrustmanagerAlgorithm (security) The algorithm used by trust manager factory for SSL connections. Default value is the trust manager factory algorithm configured for the Java Virtual Machine. PKIX String sslTruststoreLocation (security) The location of the trust store file. String sslTruststorePassword (security) The password for the trust store file. String sslTruststoreType (security) The file format of the trust store file. Default value is JKS. JKS String For more information about Producer/Consumer configuration see: http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#newconsumerconfigs http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#producerconfigs 54.6. Message headers 54.6.1. Consumer headers The following headers are available when consuming messages from Kafka. Header constant Header value Type Description KafkaConstants.TOPIC "kafka.TOPIC" String The topic from where the message originated KafkaConstants.PARTITION "kafka.PARTITION" Integer The partition where the message was stored KafkaConstants.OFFSET "kafka.OFFSET" Long The offset of the message KafkaConstants.KEY "kafka.KEY" Object The key of the message if configured KafkaConstants.HEADERS "kafka.HEADERS" org.apache.kafka.common.header.Headers The record headers KafkaConstants.LAST_RECORD_BEFORE_COMMIT "kafka.LAST_RECORD_BEFORE_COMMIT" Boolean Whether or not it's the last record before commit (only available if autoCommitEnable endpoint parameter is false ) KafkaConstants.LAST_POLL_RECORD "kafka.LAST_POLL_RECORD" Boolean Indicates the last record within the current poll request (only available if autoCommitEnable endpoint parameter is false or allowManualCommit is true ) KafkaConstants.MANUAL_COMMIT "CamelKafkaManualCommit" KafkaManualCommit Can be used for forcing manual offset commit when using Kafka consumer. 54.6.2. Producer headers Before sending a message to Kafka you can configure the following headers. Header constant Header value Type Description KafkaConstants.KEY "kafka.KEY" Object Required The key of the message in order to ensure that all related message goes in the same partition KafkaConstants.OVERRIDE_TOPIC "kafka.OVERRIDE_TOPIC" String The topic to which send the message (override and takes precedence), and the header is not preserved. KafkaConstants.OVERRIDE_TIMESTAMP "kafka.OVERRIDE_TIMESTAMP" Long The ProducerRecord also has an associated timestamp. If the user did provide a timestamp, the producer will stamp the record with the provided timestamp and the header is not preserved. KafkaConstants.PARTITION_KEY "kafka.PARTITION_KEY" Integer Explicitly specify the partition If you want to send a message to a dynamic topic then use KafkaConstants.OVERRIDE_TOPIC as its used as a one-time header that are not send along the message, as its removed in the producer. After the message is sent to Kafka, the following headers are available Header constant Header value Type Description KafkaConstants.KAFKA_RECORDMETA "org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.RecordMetadata" List<RecordMetadata> The metadata (only configured if recordMetadata endpoint parameter is true 54.7. Consumer error handling While kafka consumer is polling messages from the kafka broker, then errors can happen. This section describes what happens and what you can configure. The consumer may throw exception when invoking the Kafka poll API. For example if the message cannot be de-serialized due invalid data, and many other kind of errors. Those errors are in the form of KafkaException which are either retryable or not. The exceptions which can be retried ( RetriableException ) will be retried again (with a poll timeout in between). All other kind of exceptions are handled according to the pollOnError configuration. This configuration has the following values: DISCARD will discard the message and continue to poll message. ERROR_HANDLER will use Camel's error handler to process the exception, and afterwards continue to poll message. RECONNECT will re-connect the consumer and try poll the message again. RETRY will let the consumer retry polling the same message again STOP will stop the consumer (have to be manually started/restarted if the consumer should be able to consume messages again). The default is ERROR_HANDLER which will let Camel's error handler (if any configured) process the caused exception. And then afterwards continue to poll the message. This behavior is similar to the bridgeErrorHandler option that Camel components have. For advanced control then a custom implementation of org.apache.camel.component.kafka.PollExceptionStrategy can be configured on the component level, which allows to control which exceptions causes which of the strategies above. 54.8. Samples 54.8.1. Consuming messages from Kafka Here is the minimal route you need in order to read messages from Kafka. from("kafka:test?brokers=localhost:9092") .log("Message received from Kafka : USD{body}") .log(" on the topic USD{headers[kafka.TOPIC]}") .log(" on the partition USD{headers[kafka.PARTITION]}") .log(" with the offset USD{headers[kafka.OFFSET]}") .log(" with the key USD{headers[kafka.KEY]}") If you need to consume messages from multiple topics you can use a comma separated list of topic names. from("kafka:test,test1,test2?brokers=localhost:9092") .log("Message received from Kafka : USD{body}") .log(" on the topic USD{headers[kafka.TOPIC]}") .log(" on the partition USD{headers[kafka.PARTITION]}") .log(" with the offset USD{headers[kafka.OFFSET]}") .log(" with the key USD{headers[kafka.KEY]}") It's also possible to subscribe to multiple topics giving a pattern as the topic name and using the topicIsPattern option. from("kafka:test*?brokers=localhost:9092&topicIsPattern=true") .log("Message received from Kafka : USD{body}") .log(" on the topic USD{headers[kafka.TOPIC]}") .log(" on the partition USD{headers[kafka.PARTITION]}") .log(" with the offset USD{headers[kafka.OFFSET]}") .log(" with the key USD{headers[kafka.KEY]}") When consuming messages from Kafka you can use your own offset management and not delegate this management to Kafka. In order to keep the offsets the component needs a StateRepository implementation such as FileStateRepository . This bean should be available in the registry. Here how to use it : // Create the repository in which the Kafka offsets will be persisted FileStateRepository repository = FileStateRepository.fileStateRepository(new File("/path/to/repo.dat")); // Bind this repository into the Camel registry Registry registry = createCamelRegistry(); registry.bind("offsetRepo", repository); // Configure the camel context DefaultCamelContext camelContext = new DefaultCamelContext(registry); camelContext.addRoutes(new RouteBuilder() { @Override public void configure() throws Exception { from("kafka:" + TOPIC + "?brokers=localhost:{{kafkaPort}}" + // Setup the topic and broker address "&groupId=A" + // The consumer processor group ID "&autoOffsetReset=earliest" + // Ask to start from the beginning if we have unknown offset "&offsetRepository=#offsetRepo") // Keep the offsets in the previously configured repository .to("mock:result"); } }); 54.8.2. Producing messages to Kafka Here is the minimal route you need in order to write messages to Kafka. from("direct:start") .setBody(constant("Message from Camel")) // Message to send .setHeader(KafkaConstants.KEY, constant("Camel")) // Key of the message .to("kafka:test?brokers=localhost:9092"); 54.9. SSL configuration You have 2 different ways to configure the SSL communication on the Kafka` component. The first way is through the many SSL endpoint parameters from("kafka:" + TOPIC + "?brokers=localhost:{{kafkaPort}}" + "&groupId=A" + "&sslKeystoreLocation=/path/to/keystore.jks" + "&sslKeystorePassword=changeit" + "&sslKeyPassword=changeit" + "&securityProtocol=SSL") .to("mock:result"); The second way is to use the sslContextParameters endpoint parameter. // Configure the SSLContextParameters object KeyStoreParameters ksp = new KeyStoreParameters(); ksp.setResource("/path/to/keystore.jks"); ksp.setPassword("changeit"); KeyManagersParameters kmp = new KeyManagersParameters(); kmp.setKeyStore(ksp); kmp.setKeyPassword("changeit"); SSLContextParameters scp = new SSLContextParameters(); scp.setKeyManagers(kmp); // Bind this SSLContextParameters into the Camel registry Registry registry = createCamelRegistry(); registry.bind("ssl", scp); // Configure the camel context DefaultCamelContext camelContext = new DefaultCamelContext(registry); camelContext.addRoutes(new RouteBuilder() { @Override public void configure() throws Exception { from("kafka:" + TOPIC + "?brokers=localhost:{{kafkaPort}}" + // Setup the topic and broker address "&groupId=A" + // The consumer processor group ID "&sslContextParameters=#ssl" + // The security protocol "&securityProtocol=SSL) // Reference the SSL configuration .to("mock:result"); } }); 54.10. Using the Kafka idempotent repository The camel-kafka library provides a Kafka topic-based idempotent repository. This repository stores broadcasts all changes to idempotent state (add/remove) in a Kafka topic, and populates a local in-memory cache for each repository's process instance through event sourcing. The topic used must be unique per idempotent repository instance. The mechanism does not have any requirements about the number of topic partitions; as the repository consumes from all partitions at the same time. It also does not have any requirements about the replication factor of the topic. Each repository instance that uses the topic (e.g. typically on different machines running in parallel) controls its own consumer group, so in a cluster of 10 Camel processes using the same topic each will control its own offset. On startup, the instance subscribes to the topic and rewinds the offset to the beginning, rebuilding the cache to the latest state. The cache will not be considered warmed up until one poll of pollDurationMs in length returns 0 records. Startup will not be completed until either the cache has warmed up, or 30 seconds go by; if the latter happens the idempotent repository may be in an inconsistent state until its consumer catches up to the end of the topic. Be mindful of the format of the header used for the uniqueness check. By default, it uses Strings as the data types. When using primitive numeric formats, the header must be deserialized accordingly. Check the samples below for examples. A KafkaIdempotentRepository has the following properties: Property Description topic The name of the Kafka topic to use to broadcast changes. (required) bootstrapServers The bootstrap.servers property on the internal Kafka producer and consumer. Use this as shorthand if not setting consumerConfig and producerConfig . If used, this component will apply sensible default configurations for the producer and consumer. producerConfig Sets the properties that will be used by the Kafka producer that broadcasts changes. Overrides bootstrapServers , so must define the Kafka bootstrap.servers property itself consumerConfig Sets the properties that will be used by the Kafka consumer that populates the cache from the topic. Overrides bootstrapServers , so must define the Kafka bootstrap.servers property itself maxCacheSize How many of the most recently used keys should be stored in memory (default 1000). pollDurationMs The poll duration of the Kafka consumer. The local caches are updated immediately. This value will affect how far behind other peers that update their caches from the topic are relative to the idempotent consumer instance that sent the cache action message. The default value of this is 100 ms. If setting this value explicitly, be aware that there is a tradeoff between the remote cache liveness and the volume of network traffic between this repository's consumer and the Kafka brokers. The cache warmup process also depends on there being one poll that fetches nothing - this indicates that the stream has been consumed up to the current point. If the poll duration is excessively long for the rate at which messages are sent on the topic, there exists a possibility that the cache cannot be warmed up and will operate in an inconsistent state relative to its peers until it catches up. The repository can be instantiated by defining the topic and bootstrapServers , or the producerConfig and consumerConfig property sets can be explicitly defined to enable features such as SSL/SASL. To use, this repository must be placed in the Camel registry, either manually or by registration as a bean in Spring/Blueprint, as it is CamelContext aware. Sample usage is as follows: KafkaIdempotentRepository kafkaIdempotentRepository = new KafkaIdempotentRepository("idempotent-db-inserts", "localhost:9091"); SimpleRegistry registry = new SimpleRegistry(); registry.put("insertDbIdemRepo", kafkaIdempotentRepository); // must be registered in the registry, to enable access to the CamelContext CamelContext context = new CamelContext(registry); // later in RouteBuilder... from("direct:performInsert") .idempotentConsumer(header("id")).messageIdRepositoryRef("insertDbIdemRepo") // once-only insert into database .end() In XML: <!-- simple --> <bean id="insertDbIdemRepo" class="org.apache.camel.processor.idempotent.kafka.KafkaIdempotentRepository"> <property name="topic" value="idempotent-db-inserts"/> <property name="bootstrapServers" value="localhost:9091"/> </bean> <!-- complex --> <bean id="insertDbIdemRepo" class="org.apache.camel.processor.idempotent.kafka.KafkaIdempotentRepository"> <property name="topic" value="idempotent-db-inserts"/> <property name="maxCacheSize" value="10000"/> <property name="consumerConfig"> <props> <prop key="bootstrap.servers">localhost:9091</prop> </props> </property> <property name="producerConfig"> <props> <prop key="bootstrap.servers">localhost:9091</prop> </props> </property> </bean> There are 3 alternatives to choose from when using idempotency with numeric identifiers. The first one is to use the static method numericHeader method from org.apache.camel.component.kafka.serde.KafkaSerdeHelper to perform the conversion for you: from("direct:performInsert") .idempotentConsumer(numericHeader("id")).messageIdRepositoryRef("insertDbIdemRepo") // once-only insert into database .end() Alternatively, it is possible use a custom serializer configured via the route URL to perform the conversion: public class CustomHeaderDeserializer extends DefaultKafkaHeaderDeserializer { private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CustomHeaderDeserializer.class); @Override public Object deserialize(String key, byte[] value) { if (key.equals("id")) { BigInteger bi = new BigInteger(value); return String.valueOf(bi.longValue()); } else { return super.deserialize(key, value); } } } Lastly, it is also possible to do so in a processor: from(from).routeId("foo") .process(exchange -> { byte[] id = exchange.getIn().getHeader("id", byte[].class); BigInteger bi = new BigInteger(id); exchange.getIn().setHeader("id", String.valueOf(bi.longValue())); }) .idempotentConsumer(header("id")) .messageIdRepositoryRef("kafkaIdempotentRepository") .to(to); 54.11. Using manual commit with Kafka consumer By default the Kafka consumer will use auto commit, where the offset will be committed automatically in the background using a given interval. In case you want to force manual commits, you can use KafkaManualCommit API from the Camel Exchange, stored on the message header. This requires to turn on manual commits by either setting the option allowManualCommit to true on the KafkaComponent or on the endpoint, for example: KafkaComponent kafka = new KafkaComponent(); kafka.setAllowManualCommit(true); ... camelContext.addComponent("kafka", kafka); You can then use the KafkaManualCommit from Java code such as a Camel Processor : public void process(Exchange exchange) { KafkaManualCommit manual = exchange.getIn().getHeader(KafkaConstants.MANUAL_COMMIT, KafkaManualCommit.class); manual.commit(); } This will force a synchronous commit which will block until the commit is acknowledge on Kafka, or if it fails an exception is thrown. You can use an asynchronous commit as well by configuring the KafkaManualCommitFactory with the `DefaultKafkaManualAsyncCommitFactory`implementation. The commit will then be done in the consumer loop using the kafka asynchronous commit api. Be aware that records from a partition must be processed and committed by a unique thread. If not, this could lead with non consistent behaviors. This is mostly useful with aggregation's completion timeout strategies. If you want to use a custom implementation of KafkaManualCommit then you can configure a custom KafkaManualCommitFactory on the KafkaComponent that creates instances of your custom implementation. 54.12. Kafka Headers propagation When consuming messages from Kafka, headers will be propagated to camel exchange headers automatically. Producing flow backed by same behaviour - camel headers of particular exchange will be propagated to kafka message headers. Since kafka headers allows only byte[] values, in order camel exchange header to be propagated its value should be serialized to bytes[] , otherwise header will be skipped. Following header value types are supported: String , Integer , Long , Double , Boolean , byte[] . Note: all headers propagated from kafka to camel exchange will contain byte[] value by default. In order to override default functionality uri parameters can be set: headerDeserializer for from route and headerSerializer for to route. Example: from("kafka:my_topic?headerDeserializer=#myDeserializer") ... .to("kafka:my_topic?headerSerializer=#mySerializer") By default all headers are being filtered by KafkaHeaderFilterStrategy . Strategy filters out headers which start with Camel or org.apache.camel prefixes. Default strategy can be overridden by using headerFilterStrategy uri parameter in both to and from routes: from("kafka:my_topic?headerFilterStrategy=#myStrategy") ... .to("kafka:my_topic?headerFilterStrategy=#myStrategy") myStrategy object should be subclass of HeaderFilterStrategy and must be placed in the Camel registry, either manually or by registration as a bean in Spring/Blueprint, as it is CamelContext aware. 54.13. Spring Boot Auto-Configuration The component supports 105 options, which are listed below. Name Description Default Type camel.component.kafka.additional-properties Sets additional properties for either kafka consumer or kafka producer in case they can't be set directly on the camel configurations (e.g: new Kafka properties that are not reflected yet in Camel configurations), the properties have to be prefixed with additionalProperties.. E.g: additionalProperties.transactional.id=12345&additionalProperties.schema.registry.url=http://localhost:8811/avro. Map camel.component.kafka.allow-manual-commit Whether to allow doing manual commits via KafkaManualCommit. If this option is enabled then an instance of KafkaManualCommit is stored on the Exchange message header, which allows end users to access this API and perform manual offset commits via the Kafka consumer. false Boolean camel.component.kafka.auto-commit-enable If true, periodically commit to ZooKeeper the offset of messages already fetched by the consumer. This committed offset will be used when the process fails as the position from which the new consumer will begin. true Boolean camel.component.kafka.auto-commit-interval-ms The frequency in ms that the consumer offsets are committed to zookeeper. 5000 Integer camel.component.kafka.auto-commit-on-stop Whether to perform an explicit auto commit when the consumer stops to ensure the broker has a commit from the last consumed message. This requires the option autoCommitEnable is turned on. The possible values are: sync, async, or none. And sync is the default value. sync String camel.component.kafka.auto-offset-reset What to do when there is no initial offset in ZooKeeper or if an offset is out of range: earliest : automatically reset the offset to the earliest offset latest : automatically reset the offset to the latest offset fail: throw exception to the consumer. latest String camel.component.kafka.autowired-enabled Whether autowiring is enabled. This is used for automatic autowiring options (the option must be marked as autowired) by looking up in the registry to find if there is a single instance of matching type, which then gets configured on the component. This can be used for automatic configuring JDBC data sources, JMS connection factories, AWS Clients, etc. true Boolean camel.component.kafka.break-on-first-error This options controls what happens when a consumer is processing an exchange and it fails. If the option is false then the consumer continues to the message and processes it. If the option is true then the consumer breaks out, and will seek back to offset of the message that caused a failure, and then re-attempt to process this message. However this can lead to endless processing of the same message if its bound to fail every time, eg a poison message. Therefore its recommended to deal with that for example by using Camel's error handler. false Boolean camel.component.kafka.bridge-error-handler Allows for bridging the consumer to the Camel routing Error Handler, which mean any exceptions occurred while the consumer is trying to pickup incoming messages, or the likes, will now be processed as a message and handled by the routing Error Handler. By default the consumer will use the org.apache.camel.spi.ExceptionHandler to deal with exceptions, that will be logged at WARN or ERROR level and ignored. false Boolean camel.component.kafka.brokers URL of the Kafka brokers to use. The format is host1:port1,host2:port2, and the list can be a subset of brokers or a VIP pointing to a subset of brokers. This option is known as bootstrap.servers in the Kafka documentation. String camel.component.kafka.buffer-memory-size The total bytes of memory the producer can use to buffer records waiting to be sent to the server. If records are sent faster than they can be delivered to the server the producer will either block or throw an exception based on the preference specified by block.on.buffer.full.This setting should correspond roughly to the total memory the producer will use, but is not a hard bound since not all memory the producer uses is used for buffering. Some additional memory will be used for compression (if compression is enabled) as well as for maintaining in-flight requests. 33554432 Integer camel.component.kafka.check-crcs Automatically check the CRC32 of the records consumed. This ensures no on-the-wire or on-disk corruption to the messages occurred. This check adds some overhead, so it may be disabled in cases seeking extreme performance. true Boolean camel.component.kafka.client-id The client id is a user-specified string sent in each request to help trace calls. It should logically identify the application making the request. String camel.component.kafka.commit-timeout-ms The maximum time, in milliseconds, that the code will wait for a synchronous commit to complete. The option is a java.lang.Long type. 5000 Long camel.component.kafka.compression-codec This parameter allows you to specify the compression codec for all data generated by this producer. Valid values are none, gzip and snappy. none String camel.component.kafka.configuration Allows to pre-configure the Kafka component with common options that the endpoints will reuse. The option is a org.apache.camel.component.kafka.KafkaConfiguration type. KafkaConfiguration camel.component.kafka.connection-max-idle-ms Close idle connections after the number of milliseconds specified by this config. 540000 Integer camel.component.kafka.consumer-request-timeout-ms The configuration controls the maximum amount of time the client will wait for the response of a request. If the response is not received before the timeout elapses the client will resend the request if necessary or fail the request if retries are exhausted. 40000 Integer camel.component.kafka.consumers-count The number of consumers that connect to kafka server. Each consumer is run on a separate thread, that retrieves and process the incoming data. 1 Integer camel.component.kafka.delivery-timeout-ms An upper bound on the time to report success or failure after a call to send() returns. This limits the total time that a record will be delayed prior to sending, the time to await acknowledgement from the broker (if expected), and the time allowed for retriable send failures. 120000 Integer camel.component.kafka.enable-idempotence If set to 'true' the producer will ensure that exactly one copy of each message is written in the stream. If 'false', producer retries may write duplicates of the retried message in the stream. If set to true this option will require max.in.flight.requests.per.connection to be set to 1 and retries cannot be zero and additionally acks must be set to 'all'. false Boolean camel.component.kafka.enabled Whether to enable auto configuration of the kafka component. This is enabled by default. Boolean camel.component.kafka.fetch-max-bytes The maximum amount of data the server should return for a fetch request This is not an absolute maximum, if the first message in the first non-empty partition of the fetch is larger than this value, the message will still be returned to ensure that the consumer can make progress. The maximum message size accepted by the broker is defined via message.max.bytes (broker config) or max.message.bytes (topic config). Note that the consumer performs multiple fetches in parallel. 52428800 Integer camel.component.kafka.fetch-min-bytes The minimum amount of data the server should return for a fetch request. If insufficient data is available the request will wait for that much data to accumulate before answering the request. 1 Integer camel.component.kafka.fetch-wait-max-ms The maximum amount of time the server will block before answering the fetch request if there isn't sufficient data to immediately satisfy fetch.min.bytes. 500 Integer camel.component.kafka.group-id A string that uniquely identifies the group of consumer processes to which this consumer belongs. By setting the same group id multiple processes indicate that they are all part of the same consumer group. This option is required for consumers. String camel.component.kafka.group-instance-id A unique identifier of the consumer instance provided by the end user. Only non-empty strings are permitted. If set, the consumer is treated as a static member, which means that only one instance with this ID is allowed in the consumer group at any time. This can be used in combination with a larger session timeout to avoid group rebalances caused by transient unavailability (e.g. process restarts). If not set, the consumer will join the group as a dynamic member, which is the traditional behavior. String camel.component.kafka.header-deserializer To use a custom KafkaHeaderDeserializer to deserialize kafka headers values. The option is a org.apache.camel.component.kafka.serde.KafkaHeaderDeserializer type. KafkaHeaderDeserializer camel.component.kafka.header-filter-strategy To use a custom HeaderFilterStrategy to filter header to and from Camel message. The option is a org.apache.camel.spi.HeaderFilterStrategy type. HeaderFilterStrategy camel.component.kafka.header-serializer To use a custom KafkaHeaderSerializer to serialize kafka headers values. The option is a org.apache.camel.component.kafka.serde.KafkaHeaderSerializer type. KafkaHeaderSerializer camel.component.kafka.heartbeat-interval-ms The expected time between heartbeats to the consumer coordinator when using Kafka's group management facilities. Heartbeats are used to ensure that the consumer's session stays active and to facilitate rebalancing when new consumers join or leave the group. The value must be set lower than session.timeout.ms, but typically should be set no higher than 1/3 of that value. It can be adjusted even lower to control the expected time for normal rebalances. 3000 Integer camel.component.kafka.interceptor-classes Sets interceptors for producer or consumers. Producer interceptors have to be classes implementing org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerInterceptor Consumer interceptors have to be classes implementing org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerInterceptor Note that if you use Producer interceptor on a consumer it will throw a class cast exception in runtime. String camel.component.kafka.kafka-client-factory Factory to use for creating org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer and org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer instances. This allows to configure a custom factory to create instances with logic that extends the vanilla Kafka clients. The option is a org.apache.camel.component.kafka.KafkaClientFactory type. KafkaClientFactory camel.component.kafka.kafka-manual-commit-factory Factory to use for creating KafkaManualCommit instances. This allows to plugin a custom factory to create custom KafkaManualCommit instances in case special logic is needed when doing manual commits that deviates from the default implementation that comes out of the box. The option is a org.apache.camel.component.kafka.KafkaManualCommitFactory type. KafkaManualCommitFactory camel.component.kafka.kerberos-before-relogin-min-time Login thread sleep time between refresh attempts. 60000 Integer camel.component.kafka.kerberos-init-cmd Kerberos kinit command path. Default is /usr/bin/kinit. /usr/bin/kinit String camel.component.kafka.kerberos-principal-to-local-rules A list of rules for mapping from principal names to short names (typically operating system usernames). The rules are evaluated in order and the first rule that matches a principal name is used to map it to a short name. Any later rules in the list are ignored. By default, principal names of the form {username}/{hostname}{REALM} are mapped to {username}. For more details on the format please see the security authorization and acls documentation.. Multiple values can be separated by comma. DEFAULT String camel.component.kafka.kerberos-renew-jitter Percentage of random jitter added to the renewal time. Double camel.component.kafka.kerberos-renew-window-factor Login thread will sleep until the specified window factor of time from last refresh to ticket's expiry has been reached, at which time it will try to renew the ticket. Double camel.component.kafka.key The record key (or null if no key is specified). If this option has been configured then it take precedence over header KafkaConstants#KEY. String camel.component.kafka.key-deserializer Deserializer class for key that implements the Deserializer interface. org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer String camel.component.kafka.key-serializer The serializer class for keys (defaults to the same as for messages if nothing is given). org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer String camel.component.kafka.lazy-start-producer Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel's routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing. false Boolean camel.component.kafka.linger-ms The producer groups together any records that arrive in between request transmissions into a single batched request. Normally this occurs only under load when records arrive faster than they can be sent out. However in some circumstances the client may want to reduce the number of requests even under moderate load. This setting accomplishes this by adding a small amount of artificial delay that is, rather than immediately sending out a record the producer will wait for up to the given delay to allow other records to be sent so that the sends can be batched together. This can be thought of as analogous to Nagle's algorithm in TCP. This setting gives the upper bound on the delay for batching: once we get batch.size worth of records for a partition it will be sent immediately regardless of this setting, however if we have fewer than this many bytes accumulated for this partition we will 'linger' for the specified time waiting for more records to show up. This setting defaults to 0 (i.e. no delay). Setting linger.ms=5, for example, would have the effect of reducing the number of requests sent but would add up to 5ms of latency to records sent in the absense of load. 0 Integer camel.component.kafka.max-block-ms The configuration controls how long sending to kafka will block. These methods can be blocked for multiple reasons. For e.g: buffer full, metadata unavailable.This configuration imposes maximum limit on the total time spent in fetching metadata, serialization of key and value, partitioning and allocation of buffer memory when doing a send(). In case of partitionsFor(), this configuration imposes a maximum time threshold on waiting for metadata. 60000 Integer camel.component.kafka.max-in-flight-request The maximum number of unacknowledged requests the client will send on a single connection before blocking. Note that if this setting is set to be greater than 1 and there are failed sends, there is a risk of message re-ordering due to retries (i.e., if retries are enabled). 5 Integer camel.component.kafka.max-partition-fetch-bytes The maximum amount of data per-partition the server will return. The maximum total memory used for a request will be #partitions max.partition.fetch.bytes. This size must be at least as large as the maximum message size the server allows or else it is possible for the producer to send messages larger than the consumer can fetch. If that happens, the consumer can get stuck trying to fetch a large message on a certain partition. 1048576 Integer camel.component.kafka.max-poll-interval-ms The maximum delay between invocations of poll() when using consumer group management. This places an upper bound on the amount of time that the consumer can be idle before fetching more records. If poll() is not called before expiration of this timeout, then the consumer is considered failed and the group will rebalance in order to reassign the partitions to another member. The option is a java.lang.Long type. Long camel.component.kafka.max-poll-records The maximum number of records returned in a single call to poll(). 500 Integer camel.component.kafka.max-request-size The maximum size of a request. This is also effectively a cap on the maximum record size. Note that the server has its own cap on record size which may be different from this. This setting will limit the number of record batches the producer will send in a single request to avoid sending huge requests. 1048576 Integer camel.component.kafka.metadata-max-age-ms The period of time in milliseconds after which we force a refresh of metadata even if we haven't seen any partition leadership changes to proactively discover any new brokers or partitions. 300000 Integer camel.component.kafka.metric-reporters A list of classes to use as metrics reporters. Implementing the MetricReporter interface allows plugging in classes that will be notified of new metric creation. The JmxReporter is always included to register JMX statistics. String camel.component.kafka.metrics-sample-window-ms The number of samples maintained to compute metrics. 30000 Integer camel.component.kafka.no-of-metrics-sample The number of samples maintained to compute metrics. 2 Integer camel.component.kafka.offset-repository The offset repository to use in order to locally store the offset of each partition of the topic. Defining one will disable the autocommit. The option is a org.apache.camel.spi.StateRepository<java.lang.String, java.lang.String> type. StateRepository camel.component.kafka.partition-assignor The class name of the partition assignment strategy that the client will use to distribute partition ownership amongst consumer instances when group management is used. org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.RangeAssignor String camel.component.kafka.partition-key The partition to which the record will be sent (or null if no partition was specified). If this option has been configured then it take precedence over header KafkaConstants#PARTITION_KEY. Integer camel.component.kafka.partitioner The partitioner class for partitioning messages amongst sub-topics. The default partitioner is based on the hash of the key. org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.DefaultPartitioner String camel.component.kafka.poll-exception-strategy To use a custom strategy with the consumer to control how to handle exceptions thrown from the Kafka broker while pooling messages. The option is a org.apache.camel.component.kafka.PollExceptionStrategy type. PollExceptionStrategy camel.component.kafka.poll-on-error What to do if kafka threw an exception while polling for new messages. Will by default use the value from the component configuration unless an explicit value has been configured on the endpoint level. DISCARD will discard the message and continue to poll message. ERROR_HANDLER will use Camel's error handler to process the exception, and afterwards continue to poll message. RECONNECT will re-connect the consumer and try poll the message again RETRY will let the consumer retry polling the same message again STOP will stop the consumer (have to be manually started/restarted if the consumer should be able to consume messages again). PollOnError camel.component.kafka.poll-timeout-ms The timeout used when polling the KafkaConsumer. The option is a java.lang.Long type. 5000 Long camel.component.kafka.producer-batch-size The producer will attempt to batch records together into fewer requests whenever multiple records are being sent to the same partition. This helps performance on both the client and the server. This configuration controls the default batch size in bytes. No attempt will be made to batch records larger than this size.Requests sent to brokers will contain multiple batches, one for each partition with data available to be sent.A small batch size will make batching less common and may reduce throughput (a batch size of zero will disable batching entirely). A very large batch size may use memory a bit more wastefully as we will always allocate a buffer of the specified batch size in anticipation of additional records. 16384 Integer camel.component.kafka.queue-buffering-max-messages The maximum number of unsent messages that can be queued up the producer when using async mode before either the producer must be blocked or data must be dropped. 10000 Integer camel.component.kafka.receive-buffer-bytes The size of the TCP receive buffer (SO_RCVBUF) to use when reading data. 65536 Integer camel.component.kafka.reconnect-backoff-max-ms The maximum amount of time in milliseconds to wait when reconnecting to a broker that has repeatedly failed to connect. If provided, the backoff per host will increase exponentially for each consecutive connection failure, up to this maximum. After calculating the backoff increase, 20% random jitter is added to avoid connection storms. 1000 Integer camel.component.kafka.reconnect-backoff-ms The amount of time to wait before attempting to reconnect to a given host. This avoids repeatedly connecting to a host in a tight loop. This backoff applies to all requests sent by the consumer to the broker. 50 Integer camel.component.kafka.record-metadata Whether the producer should store the RecordMetadata results from sending to Kafka. The results are stored in a List containing the RecordMetadata metadata's. The list is stored on a header with the key KafkaConstants#KAFKA_RECORDMETA. true Boolean camel.component.kafka.request-required-acks The number of acknowledgments the producer requires the leader to have received before considering a request complete. This controls the durability of records that are sent. The following settings are common: acks=0 If set to zero then the producer will not wait for any acknowledgment from the server at all. The record will be immediately added to the socket buffer and considered sent. No guarantee can be made that the server has received the record in this case, and the retries configuration will not take effect (as the client won't generally know of any failures). The offset given back for each record will always be set to -1. acks=1 This will mean the leader will write the record to its local log but will respond without awaiting full acknowledgement from all followers. In this case should the leader fail immediately after acknowledging the record but before the followers have replicated it then the record will be lost. acks=all This means the leader will wait for the full set of in-sync replicas to acknowledge the record. This guarantees that the record will not be lost as long as at least one in-sync replica remains alive. This is the strongest available guarantee. 1 String camel.component.kafka.request-timeout-ms The amount of time the broker will wait trying to meet the request.required.acks requirement before sending back an error to the client. 30000 Integer camel.component.kafka.resume-strategy This option allows the user to set a custom resume strategy. The resume strategy is executed when partitions are assigned (i.e.: when connecting or reconnecting). It allows implementations to customize how to resume operations and serve as more flexible alternative to the seekTo and the offsetRepository mechanisms. See the KafkaConsumerResumeStrategy for implementation details. This option does not affect the auto commit setting. It is likely that implementations using this setting will also want to evaluate using the manual commit option along with this. The option is a org.apache.camel.component.kafka.consumer.support.KafkaConsumerResumeStrategy type. KafkaConsumerResumeStrategy camel.component.kafka.retries Setting a value greater than zero will cause the client to resend any record whose send fails with a potentially transient error. Note that this retry is no different than if the client resent the record upon receiving the error. Allowing retries will potentially change the ordering of records because if two records are sent to a single partition, and the first fails and is retried but the second succeeds, then the second record may appear first. 0 Integer camel.component.kafka.retry-backoff-ms Before each retry, the producer refreshes the metadata of relevant topics to see if a new leader has been elected. Since leader election takes a bit of time, this property specifies the amount of time that the producer waits before refreshing the metadata. 100 Integer camel.component.kafka.sasl-jaas-config Expose the kafka sasl.jaas.config parameter Example: org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username=USERNAME password=PASSWORD;. String camel.component.kafka.sasl-kerberos-service-name The Kerberos principal name that Kafka runs as. This can be defined either in Kafka's JAAS config or in Kafka's config. String camel.component.kafka.sasl-mechanism The Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Mechanism used. For the valid values see . GSSAPI String camel.component.kafka.schema-registry-u-r-l URL of the Confluent Platform schema registry servers to use. The format is host1:port1,host2:port2. This is known as schema.registry.url in the Confluent Platform documentation. This option is only available in the Confluent Platform (not standard Apache Kafka). String camel.component.kafka.security-protocol Protocol used to communicate with brokers. SASL_PLAINTEXT, PLAINTEXT and SSL are supported. PLAINTEXT String camel.component.kafka.seek-to Set if KafkaConsumer will read from beginning or end on startup: beginning : read from beginning end : read from end This is replacing the earlier property seekToBeginning. String camel.component.kafka.send-buffer-bytes Socket write buffer size. 131072 Integer camel.component.kafka.session-timeout-ms The timeout used to detect failures when using Kafka's group management facilities. 10000 Integer camel.component.kafka.shutdown-timeout Timeout in milliseconds to wait gracefully for the consumer or producer to shutdown and terminate its worker threads. 30000 Integer camel.component.kafka.specific-avro-reader This enables the use of a specific Avro reader for use with the Confluent Platform schema registry and the io.confluent.kafka.serializers.KafkaAvroDeserializer. This option is only available in the Confluent Platform (not standard Apache Kafka). false Boolean camel.component.kafka.ssl-cipher-suites A list of cipher suites. This is a named combination of authentication, encryption, MAC and key exchange algorithm used to negotiate the security settings for a network connection using TLS or SSL network protocol.By default all the available cipher suites are supported. String camel.component.kafka.ssl-context-parameters SSL configuration using a Camel SSLContextParameters object. If configured it's applied before the other SSL endpoint parameters. NOTE: Kafka only supports loading keystore from file locations, so prefix the location with file: in the KeyStoreParameters.resource option. The option is a org.apache.camel.support.jsse.SSLContextParameters type. SSLContextParameters camel.component.kafka.ssl-enabled-protocols The list of protocols enabled for SSL connections. TLSv1.2, TLSv1.1 and TLSv1 are enabled by default. String camel.component.kafka.ssl-endpoint-algorithm The endpoint identification algorithm to validate server hostname using server certificate. https String camel.component.kafka.ssl-key-password The password of the private key in the key store file. This is optional for client. String camel.component.kafka.ssl-keymanager-algorithm The algorithm used by key manager factory for SSL connections. Default value is the key manager factory algorithm configured for the Java Virtual Machine. SunX509 String camel.component.kafka.ssl-keystore-location The location of the key store file. This is optional for client and can be used for two-way authentication for client. String camel.component.kafka.ssl-keystore-password The store password for the key store file.This is optional for client and only needed if ssl.keystore.location is configured. String camel.component.kafka.ssl-keystore-type The file format of the key store file. This is optional for client. Default value is JKS. JKS String camel.component.kafka.ssl-protocol The SSL protocol used to generate the SSLContext. Default setting is TLS, which is fine for most cases. Allowed values in recent JVMs are TLS, TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2. SSL, SSLv2 and SSLv3 may be supported in older JVMs, but their usage is discouraged due to known security vulnerabilities. String camel.component.kafka.ssl-provider The name of the security provider used for SSL connections. Default value is the default security provider of the JVM. String camel.component.kafka.ssl-trustmanager-algorithm The algorithm used by trust manager factory for SSL connections. Default value is the trust manager factory algorithm configured for the Java Virtual Machine. PKIX String camel.component.kafka.ssl-truststore-location The location of the trust store file. String camel.component.kafka.ssl-truststore-password The password for the trust store file. String camel.component.kafka.ssl-truststore-type The file format of the trust store file. Default value is JKS. JKS String camel.component.kafka.synchronous Sets whether synchronous processing should be strictly used. false Boolean camel.component.kafka.topic-is-pattern Whether the topic is a pattern (regular expression). This can be used to subscribe to dynamic number of topics matching the pattern. false Boolean camel.component.kafka.use-global-ssl-context-parameters Enable usage of global SSL context parameters. false Boolean camel.component.kafka.value-deserializer Deserializer class for value that implements the Deserializer interface. org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer String camel.component.kafka.value-serializer The serializer class for messages. org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer String camel.component.kafka.worker-pool To use a custom worker pool for continue routing Exchange after kafka server has acknowledge the message that was sent to it from KafkaProducer using asynchronous non-blocking processing. If using this option then you must handle the lifecycle of the thread pool to shut the pool down when no longer needed. The option is a java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService type. ExecutorService camel.component.kafka.worker-pool-core-size Number of core threads for the worker pool for continue routing Exchange after kafka server has acknowledge the message that was sent to it from KafkaProducer using asynchronous non-blocking processing. 10 Integer camel.component.kafka.worker-pool-max-size Maximum number of threads for the worker pool for continue routing Exchange after kafka server has acknowledge the message that was sent to it from KafkaProducer using asynchronous non-blocking processing. 20 Integer

Commands:
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId> <artifactId>camel-kafka-starter</artifactId> </dependency>
kafka:topic[?options]
kafka:topic
from("kafka:test?brokers=localhost:9092") .log("Message received from Kafka : USD{body}") .log(" on the topic USD{headers[kafka.TOPIC]}") .log(" on the partition USD{headers[kafka.PARTITION]}") .log(" with the offset USD{headers[kafka.OFFSET]}") .log(" with the key USD{headers[kafka.KEY]}")
from("kafka:test,test1,test2?brokers=localhost:9092") .log("Message received from Kafka : USD{body}") .log(" on the topic USD{headers[kafka.TOPIC]}") .log(" on the partition USD{headers[kafka.PARTITION]}") .log(" with the offset USD{headers[kafka.OFFSET]}") .log(" with the key USD{headers[kafka.KEY]}")
from("kafka:test*?brokers=localhost:9092&topicIsPattern=true") .log("Message received from Kafka : USD{body}") .log(" on the topic USD{headers[kafka.TOPIC]}") .log(" on the partition USD{headers[kafka.PARTITION]}") .log(" with the offset USD{headers[kafka.OFFSET]}") .log(" with the key USD{headers[kafka.KEY]}")
// Create the repository in which the Kafka offsets will be persisted FileStateRepository repository = FileStateRepository.fileStateRepository(new File("/path/to/repo.dat")); // Bind this repository into the Camel registry Registry registry = createCamelRegistry(); registry.bind("offsetRepo", repository); // Configure the camel context DefaultCamelContext camelContext = new DefaultCamelContext(registry); camelContext.addRoutes(new RouteBuilder() { @Override public void configure() throws Exception { from("kafka:" + TOPIC + "?brokers=localhost:{{kafkaPort}}" + // Setup the topic and broker address "&groupId=A" + // The consumer processor group ID "&autoOffsetReset=earliest" + // Ask to start from the beginning if we have unknown offset "&offsetRepository=#offsetRepo") // Keep the offsets in the previously configured repository .to("mock:result"); } });
from("direct:start") .setBody(constant("Message from Camel")) // Message to send .setHeader(KafkaConstants.KEY, constant("Camel")) // Key of the message .to("kafka:test?brokers=localhost:9092");
from("kafka:" + TOPIC + "?brokers=localhost:{{kafkaPort}}" + "&groupId=A" + "&sslKeystoreLocation=/path/to/keystore.jks" + "&sslKeystorePassword=changeit" + "&sslKeyPassword=changeit" + "&securityProtocol=SSL") .to("mock:result");
// Configure the SSLContextParameters object KeyStoreParameters ksp = new KeyStoreParameters(); ksp.setResource("/path/to/keystore.jks"); ksp.setPassword("changeit"); KeyManagersParameters kmp = new KeyManagersParameters(); kmp.setKeyStore(ksp); kmp.setKeyPassword("changeit"); SSLContextParameters scp = new SSLContextParameters(); scp.setKeyManagers(kmp); // Bind this SSLContextParameters into the Camel registry Registry registry = createCamelRegistry(); registry.bind("ssl", scp); // Configure the camel context DefaultCamelContext camelContext = new DefaultCamelContext(registry); camelContext.addRoutes(new RouteBuilder() { @Override public void configure() throws Exception { from("kafka:" + TOPIC + "?brokers=localhost:{{kafkaPort}}" + // Setup the topic and broker address "&groupId=A" + // The consumer processor group ID "&sslContextParameters=#ssl" + // The security protocol "&securityProtocol=SSL) // Reference the SSL configuration .to("mock:result"); } });
KafkaIdempotentRepository kafkaIdempotentRepository = new KafkaIdempotentRepository("idempotent-db-inserts", "localhost:9091"); SimpleRegistry registry = new SimpleRegistry(); registry.put("insertDbIdemRepo", kafkaIdempotentRepository); // must be registered in the registry, to enable access to the CamelContext CamelContext context = new CamelContext(registry); // later in RouteBuilder from("direct:performInsert") .idempotentConsumer(header("id")).messageIdRepositoryRef("insertDbIdemRepo") // once-only insert into database .end()
<!-- simple --> <bean id="insertDbIdemRepo" class="org.apache.camel.processor.idempotent.kafka.KafkaIdempotentRepository"> <property name="topic" value="idempotent-db-inserts"/> <property name="bootstrapServers" value="localhost:9091"/> </bean> <!-- complex --> <bean id="insertDbIdemRepo" class="org.apache.camel.processor.idempotent.kafka.KafkaIdempotentRepository"> <property name="topic" value="idempotent-db-inserts"/> <property name="maxCacheSize" value="10000"/> <property name="consumerConfig"> <props> <prop key="bootstrap.servers">localhost:9091</prop> </props> </property> <property name="producerConfig"> <props> <prop key="bootstrap.servers">localhost:9091</prop> </props> </property> </bean>
from("direct:performInsert") .idempotentConsumer(numericHeader("id")).messageIdRepositoryRef("insertDbIdemRepo") // once-only insert into database .end()
public class CustomHeaderDeserializer extends DefaultKafkaHeaderDeserializer { private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CustomHeaderDeserializer.class); @Override public Object deserialize(String key, byte[] value) { if (key.equals("id")) { BigInteger bi = new BigInteger(value); return String.valueOf(bi.longValue()); } else { return super.deserialize(key, value); } } }
from(from).routeId("foo") .process(exchange -> { byte[] id = exchange.getIn().getHeader("id", byte[].class); BigInteger bi = new BigInteger(id); exchange.getIn().setHeader("id", String.valueOf(bi.longValue())); }) .idempotentConsumer(header("id")) .messageIdRepositoryRef("kafkaIdempotentRepository") .to(to);
KafkaComponent kafka = new KafkaComponent(); kafka.setAllowManualCommit(true); camelContext.addComponent("kafka", kafka);
public void process(Exchange exchange) { KafkaManualCommit manual = exchange.getIn().getHeader(KafkaConstants.MANUAL_COMMIT, KafkaManualCommit.class); manual.commit(); }
from("kafka:my_topic?headerDeserializer=#myDeserializer") .to("kafka:my_topic?headerSerializer=#mySerializer")
from("kafka:my_topic?headerFilterStrategy=#myStrategy") .to("kafka:my_topic?headerFilterStrategy=#myStrategy")