Playground for a kafka client in rust

This is a playground for a kafka client in rust. It is not intended to be used in production, it's simply a proof of concept. it's one of several consumers we're testing to see which one is the best fit for our needs in the context of the Online Delivery Stack.

Structure

The project is structured as follows:

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├── Cargo.lock
├── Cargo.toml
├── README.md
├── src
│   ├── api.rs
│   ├── client.rs
│   ├── consumer.rs
│   ├── lib.rs
│   ├── main.rs
│   └── producer.rs
└── target

• api.rs contains the api calls to a dummy external API, just to test the reqwest crate
• client.rs contains the client that connects to the kafka cluster
• consumer.rs contains the consumer that consumes messages from the kafka cluster
• producer.rs contains the producer that produces messages to the kafka cluster
• lib.rs contains the library code (Simple struct for parsing the messages)

The project also has some unit tests using the Rust built-in test framework.

Usage

to be completed