Simple Kafka Consumer not receiving messages

Question

I am a newbie to Kafka and running a simple kafka consumer/producer example as given on KafkaConsumer and KafkaProducer. When I am running consumer from terminal, consumer is re

Answer 1

Try this one this code worked for me.

Properties props = new Properties();
props.put(ConsumerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, "localhost:9092");
props.put(ConsumerConfig.VALUE_DESERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG,
"org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer");
props.put(ConsumerConfig.KEY_DESERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, 
"org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer");
props.put(ConsumerConfig.GROUP_ID_CONFIG, "test-consumer-group");
KafkaConsumer myConsumer = new KafkaConsumer<>(props);
myConsumer.subscribe(Arrays.asList(topicName));
myConsumer.subscribe(topics);

try{
      while (true) {
              ConsumerRecords records = myConsumer.poll(100);
              for (ConsumerRecord record : records) {
                  System.out.println(String.format( "Topic: %s, Partition: %d, Offset: %d, key: %s, value: %s",
                          record.topic(),record.partition(), record.offset(),record.key(),record.value()
                  ));
              }}
    }catch (Exception e){
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    }finally {
        myConsumer.close();
    }