Kafka-Protocol

Rust implementation of the Kafka wire protocol.

Unlike other Kafka protocol implementations, this project uses code generation to cover the entire Kafka API surface, including different protocol versions. See Kafka's repo for an example of protocol schema.

Versioning

Protocol messages are generated against the most recent stable Kafka release, currently 3.3.2.

Although the Kafka protocol remains relatively stable and strives to be backwards compatible, new fields are occasionally added. In order to ensure forward compatability with the protocol, this crate marks all exported items as #[non-exhaustive]. Protocol messages can be constructed using either Default::default or their provided builder.

Working with messages

Using Default::default: ```rust use kafkaprotocol::messages::{ApiKey, MetadataRequest, RequestHeader}; use kafkaprotocol::protocol::StrBytes;

let mut header = RequestHeader::default(); header.clientid = Some(StrBytes::fromstr("my-client")); header.requestapikey = ApiKey::MetadataKey as i16; header.requestapiversion = 12;

let mut request = MetadataRequest::default(); request.topics = None; request.allowautotopic_creation = true; ```

Using kafka_protocol::protocol::Builder: ```rust use kafkaprotocol::messages::{ApiKey, MetadataRequest, RequestHeader}; use kafkaprotocol::protocol::{Builder, StrBytes};

let header = RequestHeader::builder() .clientid(Some(StrBytes::fromstr("my-client"))) .requestapikey(ApiKey::MetadataKey as i16) .requestapiversion(12) .build(); ! let request = MetadataRequest::builder() .topics(None) .allowautotopic_creation(true) .build(); ```

Serialization

Once a message has been created, it can be serialized using [Encodable], writing the struct to a provided [bytes::BytesMut]. The API version for the given message matching the version specified in the request header must be provided.

```rust use bytes::BytesMut; use kafkaprotocol::messages::MetadataRequest; use kafkaprotocol::protocol::Encodable;

let mut bytes = BytesMut::new(); let request = MetadataRequest::default(); request.encode(&mut bytes, 12).unwrap(); ```

Deserialization

Messages can be decoded using [Decodobale] and providing the matching API version from their corresponding request.

```rust use bytes::Bytes; use kafkaprotocol::messages::ApiVersionsRequest; use kafkaprotocol::protocol::Decodable;

let bytes: [u8; 25] = [ 0x12, 0x61, 0x70, 0x61, 0x63, 0x68, 0x65, 0x2d, 0x6b, 0x61, 0x66, 0x6b, 0x61, 0x2d, 0x6a, 0x61, 0x76, 0x61, 0x06, 0x32, 0x2e, 0x38, 0x2e, 0x30, 0x00 ];

let res = ApiVersionsRequest::decode(&mut Bytes::from(bytes.to_vec()), 3).unwrap(); ```

Development

Run cargo run -p protocol_codegen in the root path of this repo to generate/update the Rust codes via the latest Kafka protocol schema.

Originally implemented by @Diggsey in a minimal Kafka client implementation Franz