@docitu/node-red-contrib-streamplugin 1.0.0

A plugin that either works with eventhub and kafka

npm install @docitu/node-red-contrib-streamplugin

node-red-contrib-kafka-eventhub

This plugin was made with the objective of producing messages through two very famous queuing systems: Kafka and EventHubs.

Kafka nodes were created based on the kafkajs client and EventHubs nodes were created with the official Azure client.

• KafkaJS references: https://kafka.js.org/
• EventHubs references: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-js
• How to run locally: https://hackmd.io/@b7bzaGLrTZmy3DQcHLICug/S1q45V2s9

Installation

npm install node-red-contrib-kafka-eventhub

Parameters

Kafka

Producer

• Name: A name for the producer.
• Connection: The connection configuration to enable the producer (required).
• Topic: The topic to send the messages to (required).
• Acks: The number of acknowledgments the producer requires the leader to have received before considering a request complete.
• Key: The key to use for the message.
• Partition: The partition to send the message to.

Consumer

• Name: A name for the consumer.
• Connection: The connection configuration to enable the consumer (required).
• Topic: The topic to consume the messages from (required).
• Consumer Group (group.id): The consumer group to consume the messages from.
• Clear Offsets: If set to true, the consumer will clear the offsets for the topic and group.
• From beginning: If set to true, the consumer will start from the beginning.

Connector

• Name: A name for the connector.
• Broker: The broker to connect to (required).
• UserID: ID of client to be connected to Kafka Cluster.
• Auth:
  • NONE
  • PLAIN + Username + Password
  • SASL(with 3 mechanisms) + Username + Password
• Use SSL: If set to true, the connector will use SSL.

EventHubs

Producer

• Name: A name for the producer.
• Connection String: The connection string to enable the producer (required).
• EventHub-Name: The name of the event hub to send the messages to (required).
• Retries: The number of retries to send the message (default is 3).
• Partition Key: The partition key to use for the message.

Consumer

• Name: A name for the consumer.
• EventHub-Name: The name of the event hub to consume the messages from (required).
• Connection String: The connection string to enable the consumer (required).
• Consumer Group: The consumer group to consume the messages from (required).
• Storage Account Connection String: The connection string to enable the storage account.
• Container name: The name of the container to store the messages.

In msg.*

• msg.topic
• msg.key
• msg.partition