ibm-iis-kafka v0.3.1

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ibm-iis-kafka

Re-usable functions for interacting with IBM InfoSphere Information Server's Kafka event mechanism

Examples

const iiskafka = require('ibm-iis-kafka');
const infosphereEventEmitter = new iiskafka.InfosphereEventEmitter('zookeeper-host:2181', 'asset-object-handler', false);
infosphereEventEmitter.on('IGC_DATABASESGROUP_EVENT', function(infosphereEvent, eventCtx, commitCallback) {
  console.log("Processing a change to a Database object:");
  console.log("  ... type (display name): " + infosphereEvent.ASSET_TYPE);
  console.log("  ... unique ID (RID)    : " + infosphereEvent.ASSET_RID);
  console.log("  ... parent identity    : " + infosphereEvent.ASSET_CONTEXT);
  console.log("  ... asset identity     : " + infosphereEvent.ASSET_NAME);
  console.log("  ... action taken       : " + infosphereEvent.ACTION);
  console.log("Full event: " + JSON.stringify(infosphereEvent));
  commitCallback(eventCtx); // tell Kafka we've successfully consumed this event
});

Meta

• license: Apache-2.0

InfosphereEventEmitter

Connects to Kafka on the specified system and emits any events raised, based on the specified parameter

Parameters

• zookeeperConnection string the hostname of the domain (services) tier of the Information Server environment and port number to connect to Zookeeper service (e.g. hostname:52181)
• handlerId string a unique identity for the handler (allowing multiple handlers to consume the same events)
• bFromBeginning boolean? if true, process all events from the beginning of tracking in Information Server
• topic string? name of the topic for which to emit events (optional, default 'InfosphereEvents')

eventCommitCallback

This callback is invoked as in order to commit that an event was successfully consumed from Kafka

Type: Function

Parameters

• eventCtx Object the context of the Kafka event that was consumed