Folks I really hate to do this, but I need advice on the 'Kafka.pm' modules (interface to Apache Kafka Messaging). They do not install because of multiple failed tests.

I an working on RHEL7 (new OS for me), and have all the needed support packages installed. But the Kafka module is not installed due to numerous failed tests!

There is a mysterious statement in the README:

The following environment variable changes the way Kafka Benchmark tes
+t behave:
 
   # The root directory of the installation Kafka 0.8+
   KAFKA_BASE_DIR

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Nothing more. Is that just an empty directory? is this the only inference that 'kafka' is expected to be installed on all system where this Perl module is installed?
Well, without this set, final testing fails because that ENV is not set. Why not just say that the ENV is required? I pointed that ENV to '/opt/kafkaEmptyDir', and made it to test 07_cluster.t which failed, as did all the following tests

There is no Apache Kafka installed on this client system, the Kafka is installed on a separate Server system.

---Update------------

I have things working, and I thought that if you called up this thread, you might like a tip on testing that your code really works. I installed Kafka with a 'walk-through' blog entry, so I am not at all familiar with Kafka itself. But, in order to get things talking, the Kafka configuration file "server.properties" needs to have the 2 'hostname' related items:

host.name=kafka
advertised.host.name=kafka

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And then I set /etc/hosts (on both machines) so that 'kafka' resolved to the IP of the Kafka server. Set it to some name resolvable by either the DNS or the /etc/hosts file on both the remote Kafka and the Perl client machine.

Good luck

It is always better to have seen your target for yourself, rather than depend upon someone else's description.

In reply to Experience with the Kafka interface modules by Wiggins

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