DelphiKafkaClient

DelphiKafkaClient is a cross platform Delphi client/wrapper for Apache Kafka. Windows (i386/x64) and Linux (x64) are supported. Tested on Delphi 10.4, but should work with all modern Delphi releases.

Disclaimer

While it appears to work as expected, DelphiKafkaClient is a proof of concept and has never been tested in production.

Installation

You will need to install Apache Kafka - https://kafka.apache.org/quickstart

Linux

Install the librdkafka libray.

sudo apt install librdkafka-dev

Once unstalled, right click the Linux platform item under the KafkaDemo project and select Edit SDK. Click Update Local File Cache and wait for the operation to complete.

Windows

Copy the .dll files from the lib folder into the application output directory.

Code

All Kafka functionality can be accessed via the header translations in Kafka.Lib. To make life easier, many of the common Kafka functions are wrapped in the Kafka.Helper.TKafkaHelper class. In addition there are two additional interfaced classes dedicated to Producing and Consuming messages.

IKafkaProducer

uses
  Kafka.Lib, Kafka.Factory, Kafka.Interfaces, Kafka.Helper, Kafka.Types;
... 
  FKafkaProducer: IKafkaProducer;
... 
procedure TKafkaDemo.SendTestMessages(const Count: Integer);
var
  Msgs: TArray<String>;
  i: Integer;
begin
  // Create a new producer if required 
  if FKafkaProducer = nil then
  begin
    FKafkaProducer := TKafkaFactory.NewProducer(
      ['bootstrap.servers'],
      ['127.0.0.1:9092']);
  end;

  SetLength(Msgs, Trunc(edtMessageCount.Value));

  for i := 0 to pred(Trunc(edtMessageCount.Value)) do
  begin
    Msgs[i] := 'This is a test message' + ' - ' + DateTimeToStr(now) + '.' + MilliSecondOf(now).ToString.PadLeft(3, '0');
  end;

  FKafkaProducer.Produce(
    'test',
    Msgs,
    nil,
    0,
    RD_KAFKA_PARTITION_UA,
    RD_KAFKA_MSG_F_COPY,
    nil);

  TKafkaHelper.Flush(FKafkaProducer.KafkaHandle);      
end;

IKafkaConsumer

uses
  Kafka.Lib, Kafka.Factory, Kafka.Interfaces, Kafka.Helper, Kafka.Types;
...  
  FKafkaConsumer: IKafkaConsumer;
... 
procedure TKafkaDemo.StartConsuming;
begin
  if FKafkaConsumer = nil then
  begin
    FKafkaConsumer := TKafkaFactory.NewConsumer(
      ['group.id'],
      ['GroupID'],
      ['auto.offset.reset'],
      ['earliest'],
      '127.0.0.1:9092',
      ['test'],
      [0],
      procedure(const Msg: prd_kafka_message_t)
      begin
        // This is called from the consumer thread, but TKafka.Log is threadsafe
        TKafkaHelper.Log(format('Message received - %s', [TKafkaHelper.PointerToStr(Msg.payload, Msg.len)]), TKafkaLogType.kltConsumer);
      end);
  end;
end;

Thanks

Shouts go out to @Zhikter and @HeZiHang for some initial inspiration and code examples.