This is TrueLogic's take home project built using Spring Boot, Apache Kafka and the H2 database engine.
This guide is based on the official quickstart guide that you can find here.
First, download the latest Apache Kafka (2.13-2.6.0 at the time of this writing) release. Then run the following commands:
$ tar -xzf kafka_2.13-2.6.0.tgz
$ cd kafka_2.13-2.6.0
Then run the following to start all the services:
$ bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties
On a different terminal run the following:
$ bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties
To create the topic (novice-players) run the following in yet a different terminal:
$ bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --topic novice-players --bootstrap-server localhost:9092
To get the messages published to the topic run the following:
$ bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --topic novice-players --from-beginning --bootstrap-server localhost:9092
To run the project using Maven execute the following:
mvn spring-boot:run
Or taking advantage of the Maven wrapper: On Linux and Mac OS:
./mvnw spring-boot:run
On Windows:
mvnw spring-boot:run
By default, the endpoint to which the POST requests should be sent is:
localhost:8080/players
The default topic name can be changed using the truelogic.topic property inside the application.properties file.
For further reference, please consider the following sections: