How to use Flink's KafkaSource in Scala?

Question

I'm trying to run a simple test program with Flink's KafkaSource. I'm using the following:

• Flink 0.9
• Scala 2.10.4
• Kafka 0.8.2.1

I followed the docs to test KafkaSource (added dependency, bundle the Kafka connector flink-connector-kafka in plugin) as described here and here.

Below is my simple test program:

import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.scala._
import org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka

object TestKafka {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment
    val stream = env
     .addSource(new KafkaSource[String]("localhost:2181", "test", new SimpleStringSchema))
     .print
  }
}

However, compilation always complains KafkaSource not found:

[ERROR] TestKafka.scala:8: error: not found: type KafkaSource
[ERROR]     .addSource(new KafkaSource[String]("localhost:2181", "test", new SimpleStringSchema))

What do I miss here?

Answer 1

I'm a sbt user so I used the following build.sbt:

organization := "pl.japila.kafka"
scalaVersion := "2.11.7"

libraryDependencies += "org.apache.flink" % "flink-connector-kafka" % "0.9.0" exclude("org.apache.kafka", "kafka_${scala.binary.version}")
libraryDependencies += "org.apache.kafka" %% "kafka" % "0.8.2.1"

that allowed me to run the program:

import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.environment._
import org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka
import org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.api._
import org.apache.flink.streaming.util.serialization._

object TestKafka {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment
    val stream = env
     .addSource(new KafkaSource[String]("localhost:2181", "test", new SimpleStringSchema))
     .print
  }
}

The output:

[kafka-flink]> run
[info] Running TestKafka
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.flink.streaming.api.graph.StreamGraph).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.
[success] Total time: 0 s, completed Jul 15, 2015 9:29:31 AM