Kafka consumer not consuming the data produced into topic

Question

I have to create a kafka producer that generates a sequence of numbers from 1 to 300. Each of the message I wrote have to contain information about the topic, a key and the value which is a the binary value of the value to write.

This is the code I've created:

from kafka import KafkaProducer
import numpy as np
import time

producer = KafkaProducer(bootstrap_servers='Cloudera02:9092')

for i in range(1,300):
    value = bytes(str(i), 'utf-8')
    key = (str(i), 'utf-8')
    producer.send('PEC5', key = key, value = value)
    time.sleep(3) 
producer.flush()

The kafka consumer should read the producer and show only the value in the console.

from kafka import KafkaConsumer
from codecs import utf_8_decode

consumer = KafkaConsumer('PEC5', bootstrap_servers='Cloudera02:9092', auto_offset_reset='smallest', consumer_timeout_ms=10000)

for message in consumer:
    for value in message.values:
        print(value)

I am running 2 terminals, one with the producer and a second with the consumer, but I don't get anything printed in the console. Any idea what's wrong?

Answer 1

The auto_offset_reset value is wrong in the KafkaConsumer , from the docs it only has two valid values latest and earliest and Any other value will raise the exception

auto_offset_reset (str) – A policy for resetting offsets on OffsetOutOfRange errors: 'earliest' will move to the oldest available message, 'latest' will move to the most recent. Any other value will raise the exception. Default: 'latest'.

So construct KafkaConsumer with earliest

consumer = KafkaConsumer('PEC5', bootstrap_servers='Cloudera02:9092', auto_offset_reset='earliest', consumer_timeout_ms=10000)