README.md

Plumber simple desktop application for Apache Kafka

Plumber simple GUI desktop application for Apache Kafka based on librdkafka/modern-cpp-kafka and Qt and written on C++. Docker/browser free just download and run.

Features

• View all topics;
• View messages and add new messages;
• Add and drop topics;
• Show JSON in a pretty-printed format;
• Encode/decode protobuf;
• Experimental encode/decode avro.

What happened to kafkaui?

plumber is kafkaui. The kafkaui project was renamed to adhere to the Apache Software Foundation's (ASF) trademark policies. Apart from the name, nothing else was changed.

Build from source

Requirements

• Qt >= 6;
• librdkafka >= 1.7;
• spdlog;
• Boost;
• Snappy;
• protobuf >= 3.14.0.

GNU/Linux

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
$ make
$ ./plumber

Windows

vcpkg and Visual Studio 2019

.\vcpkg.exe install qt:x64-windows
.\vcpkg.exe install librdkafka[*]:x64-windows --recurse
.\vcpkg.exe install spdlog:x64-windows
.\vcpkg.exe install boost:x64-windows
.\vcpkg.exe install spdlog:x64-windows
.\vcpkg.exe install protobuf:x64-windows
.\vcpkg.exe install snappy:x64-windows
cmake -B build -S . -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=[path to vcpkg]/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake
cmake --build build
[path to vcpkg]\installed\x64-windows\tools\Qt6\bin\windeployqt.debug.bat windeployqt.exe -qmldir=[path to vcpkg]\installed\x64-windows\Qt6\qml [project]\plumber\build\Debug
cp -r [path to vcpkg]\installed\x64-windows\Qt6\qml\Qt\labs\platform [project]\plumber\build\Debugqml\Qt\labs\

Mac OS X

% brew install librdkafka
% brew install spdlog
% brew install qt@6
% brew install boost
% brew install protobuf
% brew install snappy
% cmake -B build -S . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
% cmake --build build --config Release

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