libkafka-asio

C++ Kafka Client Library using Boost Asio

Introduction

libkafka-asio is a C++ header-only library, implementing the Kafka client protocol. All Kafka APIs, including offset commit/fetch, are implemented:

• Metadata
• Produce
• Fetch
• Offset
• Offset Commit/Fetch

It supports GZIP and Snappy message compression and therefore relies on the zlib and Snappy libraries. Message compression can optionally be turned off.

The library was tested on Linux (GCC 4.9, clang 3.5.1) and Windows (MSVC 10, 11, 12). There is a set of unit tests available under test.

Usage

Add the lib directory to your include paths and:

#include <libkafka_asio/libkafka_asio.h>

Please see the examples directory for some examples on how to use the library.

Also consult the documentation: libkafka-asio Reference

Dependencies

libkafka-asio depends on the Boost C++ libraries -- specially on Boost Asio. The following Boost sub-libraries are explicitly used in the project:

• boost asio
• boost bind
• boost crc
• boost foreach
• boost integer
• boost iterator
• boost optional
• boost smart ptr
• boost system

You need to link against boost_thread and boost_system.

So installing the boost library package on your distribution should do the trick (e.g. apt-get install libboost-dev on Ubuntu, or pacman -S boost on Arch).