Kafka: Get broker host from ZooKeeper

Question

For particular reasons I need to use both - ConsumerGroup (a.k.a. high-level consumer) and SimpleConsumer (a.k.a. low-level consumer) to read from

Answer 1

It turns out that Kafka uses ZKStringSerializer to read and write data into znodes. So, to fix the error I only had to add it as a last parameter in ZkClient constructor:

val zkClient = new ZkClient(zkQuorum, Integer.MAX_VALUE, 10000, ZKStringSerializer)

Using it, I wrote several useful functions for discovering broker ids, their addresses and other stuff:

import kafka.utils.Json
import kafka.utils.ZKStringSerializer
import kafka.utils.ZkUtils
import org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient
import org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException


def listBrokers(): List[Int] = {
  zkClient.getChildren("/brokers/ids").toList.map(_.toInt)
}

def listTopics(): List[String] = {
  zkClient.getChildren("/brokers/topics").toList
}

def listPartitions(topic: String): List[Int] = {
  val path = "/brokers/topics/" + topic + "/partitions"
  if (zkClient.exists(path)) {
    zkClient.getChildren(path).toList.map(_.toInt)
  } else {
    throw new KafkaException(s"Topic ${topic} doesn't exist")
  }
}

def getBrokerAddress(brokerId: Int): (String, Int) = {
  val path = s"/brokers/ids/${brokerId}"
  if (zkClient.exists(path)) {
    val brokerInfo = readZkData(path)
    (brokerInfo.get("host").get.asInstanceOf[String], brokerInfo.get("port").get.asInstanceOf[Int])
  } else {
    throw new KafkaException("Broker with ID ${brokerId} doesn't exist")
  }
}

def getLeaderAddress(topic: String, partitionId: Int): (String, Int) = {
  val path = s"/brokers/topics/${topic}/partitions/${partitionId}/state"
  if (zkClient.exists(path)) {
    val leaderStr = zkClient.readData[String](path)
    val leaderId = Json.parseFull(leaderStr).get.asInstanceOf[Map[String, Any]].get("leader").get.asInstanceOf[Int]
    getBrokerAddress(leaderId)
  } else {
    throw new KafkaException(s"Topic (${topic}) or partition (${partitionId}) doesn't exist")
  }
}