Kafka Brokers

Comma separated list of Kafka brokers in the format host:port (or ip:port)

127.0.0.1:9092

Header Property

Header property name in the Camel message where Camel Kafka component will find the composed URL representing the endpoint to invoke.
For most of the use cases the default configuration works good and should not to be changed.

evaluatedKafkaEndPoint

Original Topic

The name of the topic where the message was originally sent to by the device. By default it is read from the originalTopic property of the Camel message. It is used by Kafka to calculate the partition key.
For most of the use cases the default configuration works good and should not to be changed.

$simple{in.header.originalTopic}

Header Topic value

The Kafka topic where the message will be published. The string enclosed within the brackets must be a variable recognized by the routing service. Currently ACCOUNT variable is supported. At runtime it is evaluated with the account name.
Optionally a string literal can be specified (like for example "mytopic" or "baseName.${ACCOUNT}"). The literal must be a valid name for a Kafka topic.
By default the topic name is the name of the account.

${ACCOUNT}

Key Serializer

Kafka key serializer.
For the serializers provided by Kafka please refer to the Kafka documentation.

org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer

Serializer

Kafka message serializer.
For the serializers provided by Kafka please refer to the Kafka documentation.

org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer

Url Options

Additional Kafka endpoint options. This field allows to specify more parameters to be used by the Kafka client. The options are added to the composed URL. For the available client parameters please refer to the Kafka client documentation.

Example: to enable the SASL authentication this field should be set as follow: "&securityProtocol=SASL_PLAINTEXT&saslMechanism=PLAIN". For more details regarding security configuration refer to section Kafka Integration