galanteh / Gregor

Gregor is a Python program that produces fake data into an Apache Kafka topic for demo purposes

Gregor

Gregor is a program that produces fake data into an Apache Kafka topic for demo purposes

Versions

0.0.2 - Known limitations

• It's only serializing into String. We must expand the possibilities to more type options.
• It's working with multiple partitions
• Partitions should be used with threads
• If the topics does not exist, we should created or give an error.
• Should release a CentOS Linux binaries
• Should be working on Sync or Async mode.

How to use it?

First of all, you need to configure the Gregor.cfg file with all the options. See the sample one to get an idea. It's a simple INI format file.

To use it just with python3

# Check version
python3 Gregor.py -v

# Show data sample
python3 Gregor.py -d 
 
# Show the possible varibles of the fake data to generate
python3 Gregor.py -l 

# Executing indefenitely
python3 Gregor.py -s 

License

See the LICENSE file for license rights and limitations (APACHE LICENSE 2.0).