aericson / avrocat

CLI tool for consuming and producing Avro messages on Kafka.

Avrocat

CLI tool for consuming and producing Avro messages from Kafka.

Installation

pip install -e .

Usage

Consume all messages

avrocat consume -t <topic> -b <broker> -r <schema_registry>

Consume messages with given key

avrocat consume -t <topic> -b <broker> -r <schema_registry> -k <key> -P <num_partitions>

Produce message

cat << EOF > CreateFoo.json
{
    "class": "CreateFoo",
    "data": {
        "id": "12345",
        "foo": "foo"
    }
}
EOF

cat CreateFoo.json | avrocat produce -t <topic> -n <num_messages>

Validate JSON against schema

avrocat validate -t <topic> -f CreateFoo.json