MetaPublish Listeners

Before you run the metapublish.sh sample with output to MQTT or Kafka or FIFO, add a listener that corresponds to the method you attempt.

By default the sample will display pretty printed output to stdout. But you may provide parameters to output to MQTT or Kafka or FIFO, in this case

  • For MQTT, install and launch MQTT broker along with an MQTT client listener subscribed to the topic (that emits to console).
  • For Kafka, install and launch Zookeeper and Kafka broker along with a Kafka client listener subscribed to the topic (that emits to console).
  • For FIFO file, create the fifo and tail results in console.

MQTT

Mosquitto provides a docker image to quickly stand up a minimal MQTT broker and client listener.

#!/bin/bash
#listen_mqtt.sh
# Launch minimal MQTT broker
docker run -d --rm --name dlstreamer_mqtt -p 1883:1883 -p 9001:9001 eclipse-mosquitto
echo "Listening for MQTT messages on 'dlstreamer' topic..."
# Launch client listener, subscribing to default topic
# Emit output to console
mosquitto_sub -h localhost -t dlstreamer

Kafka

Bitnami provides docker images to quickly stand up a minimal Kafka broker and client listener.

  1. Construct a Kafka compose file named docker-compose-kafka.yml.
    # Get Bitnami compose file
    echo "Fetching docker-compose-kafka.yml"
    curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitnami/bitnami-docker-kafka/master/docker-compose.yml > docker-compose-kafka.yml
    # Modify docker-compose-kafka.yml to allow auto-creation of topics
    # Modify docker-compose-kafka.yml to add distinct network

The new compose file should match the following:

#docker-compose-kafka.yml
version: '2'
networks:
kafka-net:
driver: bridge
services:
zookeeper:
image: 'bitnami/zookeeper:latest'
networks:
- kafka-net
ports:
- '2181:2181'
environment:
- ALLOW_ANONYMOUS_LOGIN=yes
kafka:
image: 'bitnami/kafka:latest'
networks:
- kafka-net
ports:
- '9092:9092'
environment:
- KAFKA_CFG_AUTO_CREATE_TOPICS_ENABLE=true
- KAFKA_CFG_ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT=zookeeper:2181
- KAFKA_CFG_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS=PLAINTEXT://localhost:9092
- ALLOW_PLAINTEXT_LISTENER=yes
depends_on:
- zookeeper
  1. Create a listen_kafka.sh script in the same folder as your compose file that looks similar to this:
    #!/bin/bash
    #listen_kafka.sh
    echo "Launching zookeeper and kafka containers with auto-topic creation on a distinct network."
    docker-compose -f docker-compose-kafka.yml up -d
    echo "Listening for Kafka messages on 'dlstreamer' topic..."
    # Emit output to console
    docker exec -it metapublish_kafka_1 /opt/bitnami/kafka/bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic dlstreamer

FIFO file

Create the FIFO file and tail results in console

#!/bin/bash
#listen_fifo.sh
OUTPUT_PATHFILE=./dlstreamer.fifo
# Assure previous fifo does not exist and create one using same name provided to metapublish.sh
rm -f $OUTPUT_PATHFILE
mkfifo $OUTPUT_PATHFILE
echo "Waiting for DL Streamer to write lines to FIFO: $OUTPUT_PATHFILE"
# Emit output to console
tail -f $OUTPUT_PATHFILE