Confluent.RestClient

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Confluent.RestClient is a .NET client libaray for Confluent.io REST API

REST API documentation: http://confluent.io/docs/current/kafka-rest/docs/index.html

Implemting your own Confluent client settings.

Confluent client settings can be implemented by extending IConfluentClientSettings, for example

public class MyConfluentClientSettings : IConfluentClientSettings
{
    public string KafkaBaseUrl
    {
        get
        {
            return ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Confluent.KafkaBaseUrl"];
        }
    }
    
    public TimeSpan RequestTimeout
    {
        get
        {
            return TimeSpan.Parse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Confluent.RequestTimeout"]);
        }
    }
}

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You can check out all the client operartions in the Confluent.TestHarness app. They are very easy to use, for example:

Publishing Avro data to TestTopic

// Contract to publish as Avro data 
[DataContract]
public class Person
{
    [DataMember]
    public string Name { get; set; }

    [DataMember]
    public int Age { get; set; }
}


IConfluentClient client = new ConfluentClient(settings);

var records = new[]
{
    new AvroRecord<string, Person>
    {
        PartitionId = Convert.ToInt32(0),
        Value = new Person { Name = Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N"), Age = 25 }
    },
    new AvroRecord<string, Person>
    {
        Value = new Person { Name = Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N"), Age = 26 }
    }
};
var recordSet = new AvroRecordSet<string, Person>(records)
{
    //Creating schema using "Microsoft.Hadoop.Avro" - https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Hadoop.Avro/
    ValueSchema = AvroSerializer.Create<Person>().ReaderSchema.ToString()
};

await client.PublishAsAvroAsync("TestTopic", recordSet);

Creating consumer instance to consume Avro data

IConfluentClient client = new ConfluentClient(settings);
                
var request = new CreateConsumerRequest
{
    // Confluent API will create a new InstanceId if not supplied
    InstanceId = "TestConsumerInstance",
    MessageFormat = MessageFormat.Avro
};

ConfluentResponse<ConsumerInstance> response = await client.CreateConsumerAsync("TestConsumerGroup", request);
ConsumerInstance consumerInstance = response.Payload;

Consume Avro data

IConfluentClient client = new ConfluentClient(settings);

ConfluentResponse<List<AvroMessage<string, Person>>> response
    = await client.ConsumeAsAvroAsync<string, Person>(consumerInstance, "TestTopic");

foreach (AvroMessage<string, Person> message in response.Payload)
{
    Person person = message.Value;
    Console.WriteLine("Name: {0}, Age: {1}", person.Name, person.Age);
}

Commit offset

await client.CommitOffsetAsync(consumerInstance);