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Learning Apache Apex
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Learning Apache Apex

by Ananth Gundabattula, Thomas Weise, Munagala V. Ramanath, David Yan, Kenneth Knowles
November 2017
Beginner to intermediate
290 pages
7h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Application configuration

The application is configured via the properties.xml file, in the resources/META-INF directory, and includes the following elements:

  • The Kafka input topic
  • The Kafka broker address and port
  • A schema of input records and its name
  • A schema of output records and its name
  • The SQL query used to filter and project
  • The output filename
  • The output directory

The first two are straightforward:

<property>
    <name>apex.operator.KafkaInput.prop.topics</name>
    <value>ETLTopic</value>
</property><property>
    <name>apex.operator.KafkaInput.prop.clusters</name>
    <value>localhost:9092</value>  <!-- broker (NOT zookeeper) address -->
</property> 

The topics property of the KafkaInput operator defines the topic for input records, and the ...

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