// import the `Kafka` instance from the kafkajs library const { Kafka } = require('kafkajs'); // the client ID lets kafka know who's producing the messages const clientId = 'my-app'; // we can define the list of brokers in the cluster const brokers = ['localhost:9092', 'localhost:9093', 'localhost:9094']; // this is the topic to which we want to write messages const topic = 'event'; // initialize a new kafka client and initialize a producer from it const kafka = new Kafka({ clientId, brokers }); const { Partitioners } = require('kafkajs'); const producer = kafka.producer({ createPartitioner: Partitioners.DefaultPartitioner }); // we define an async function that writes a new message each second async function produce_event() { await producer.connect(); let i = 0; // after the produce has connected, we start an interval timer setInterval(async () => { try { // send a message to the configured topic with // the key and value formed from the current value of `i` let y = Math.random() .toString(36) .replace(/[^a-z]+/g, '') .substr(0, 5); let z = Math.random() .toString(36) .replace(/[^a-z]+/g, '') .substr(0, 5); let x = { event_uuid: '00fea66e-a433-536d-a13d-2d873fab0a08', website_id: i, session_uuid: '00fea66e-a433-536d-a13d-2d873fab0a08', created_at: '2020-07-18 11:53:33', url: y, event_data: z, }; await producer.send({ topic, messages: [ { key: 'my-key', value: JSON.stringify(x), }, { key: 'my-key', value: JSON.stringify(x), }, { key: 'my-key', value: JSON.stringify(x), }, { key: 'my-key', value: JSON.stringify(x), }, { key: 'my-key', value: JSON.stringify(x), }, ], }); i++; } catch (err) { console.error('could not write message ' + err); } }, 4); } module.exports = produce_event;