kafka-streams-scala

This is a thin Scala wrapper for the Kafka Streams API. It does not intend to provide a Scala-idiomatic API, but rather intends to make the original API simpler to use from Scala. In particular, it provides the following adjustements:

Scala lambda expressions can be used directly
when aggregating and counting, counts are converted from Java Longs to Scala Longs
when using a flatMap operation, this lets you use a Scala Iterable
Serdes (Serializers/Deserializers) can be implicitly found in the scope

This API also contains a few Serdes (Serializers/Deserializers):

to convert Scala Int/Long/Double to/from their binary representation
to convert Scala Int/Long/Double to/from string representation
to convert case classes to/from JSON

Usage of the Kafka Streams API in Scala

The main objects are:

KStreamsBuilderS as the entry point to build streams or tables
KStreamS as a wrapper around KStream
KGroupedStreamS as a wrapper around KGroupedStream
KTableS as a wrapper around KTable
KGroupedTable as a wrapper around KGroupedTable

Using the builder

With the original Java API, you would create an instance of KStreamBuilder, then use it to create streams or tables. Here, KStreamsBuilderS is an object thqt can be used directly:

val stream: KStreamS[String, String] = KStreamBuilderS.stream[String, String]("my-stream")

val table: KTableS[String, String] = KStreamBuilderS.table[String, String]("my-table")

When starting the application, you just need to unwrap the KStreamBuilder by calling KStreamBuilderS.inner:

val streams = new KafkaStreams(KStreamBuilderS.inner, config)

Serdes (declare them as implicit)

It is a common mistake to forget to specify Serdes when using the Java API, then resulting in class cast errors when objects are serialized or deserialized.

To work around this issue, this API requires Serdes to be used. Most of the times, it is enough to declare your Serdes as implicit values, and they will be picked up automatically:

implicit val stringSerde: Serde[String] = Serdes.String()
implicit val userSerde: Serde[User] = new MyUserSerde

val usersByIdStream = KStreamBuilderS.stream[String, User]("users-by-id")

Resolution is based on the type of the object to serialize/deserialize, so make sure you have a Serve of the appropriate type. If not, you should see an error such as:

Error:(87, 80) could not find implicit value for parameter keySerde: org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.Serde[String]

If, on the other hand, you have multiple Serdes for the same type, you might see the following error:

Error:(88, 80) ambiguous implicit values:
 both value stringSerde2 of type org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.Serde[String]
 and value stringSerde1 of type org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.Serde[String]
 match expected type org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.Serde[String]

In this case, just pass the Serde explicitly:

val usersByIdStream = KStreamBuilderS.stream[String, User]("users-by-id")(stringSerde, userSerde)

Usage of the Serdes in Scala

To convert Scala Int/Long/Double to/from their binary representation:

import com.github.aseigneurin.kafka.serialization.scala._

implicit val intSerde = IntAsStringSerde
implicit val longSerde = LongAsStringSerde
implicit val doubleSerde = DoubleAsStringSerde

To convert Scala Int/Long/Double to/from string representation:

import com.github.aseigneurin.kafka.serialization.scala._

implicit val intSerde = IntSerde
implicit val longSerde = LongSerde
implicit val doubleSerde = DoubleSerde

To convert case classes to/from JSON:

define a case class
create an instance of JsonSerde with the case class as the generic type

Example:

import com.github.aseigneurin.kafka.serialization.scala._

case class User(name: String)

implicit val stringSerde = Serdes.String
implicit val userSerde = new JsonSerde[User]

// read JSON -> case class
KStreamBuilderS.stream[String, User]("users")
  .mapValues { user => user.name }
  .to("names")

// write case class -> JSON
KStreamBuilderS.stream[String, String]("names")
  .mapValues { name => User(name) }
  .to("users")

Example

This repository contains a Scala version of the Java Word Count Demo.

Here is the code to implement a word count: