Using Kafka

WARNING

The Kafka transport does not really support the "Requeue" error handling policy in Wolverine. "Requeue" in this case becomes effectively an inline "Retry"

Installing

To use Kafka as a messaging transport with Wolverine, first install the Wolverine.Kafka library via nuget to your project. Behind the scenes, this package uses the Confluent.Kafka client library managed library for accessing Kafka brokers.

dotnet add WolverineFx.Kafka

To connect to Kafka, use this syntax:

using var host = await Host.CreateDefaultBuilder()
    .UseWolverine(opts =>
    {
        opts.UseKafka("localhost:29092")
            
            // See https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-dotnet for the exact options here
            .ConfigureClient(client =>
            {
                // configure both producers and consumers
                
            })
            
            .ConfigureConsumers(consumer =>
            {
                // configure only consumers
            })
            
            .ConfigureProducers(producer =>
            {
                // configure only producers
            });

        // Just publish all messages to Kafka topics
        // based on the message type (or message attributes)
        // This will get fancier in the near future
        opts.PublishAllMessages().ToKafkaTopics();
 
        // Or explicitly make subscription rules
        opts.PublishMessage<ColorMessage>()
            .ToKafkaTopic("colors");
 
        // Listen to topics
        opts.ListenToKafkaTopic("red")
            .ProcessInline();

        opts.ListenToKafkaTopic("green")
            .BufferedInMemory();
 

        // This will direct Wolverine to try to ensure that all
        // referenced Kafka topics exist at application start up 
        // time
        opts.Services.AddResourceSetupOnStartup();
    }).StartAsync();

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The various Configure*****() methods provide quick access to the full API of the Confluent Kafka library for security and fine tuning the Kafka topic behavior.