Kafka Streams - Send on different topics depending on Streams Data

Question

I have a kafka streams application waiting for records to be published on topic user_activity. It will receive json data and depending on the value of against a key I want to push that stream into different topics.

This is my streams App code:

KStream<String, String> source_user_activity = builder.stream("user_activity");
        source_user_activity.flatMapValues(new ValueMapper<String, Iterable<String>>() {
            @Override
            public Iterable<String> apply(String value) {
                System.out.println("value: " +  value);
                ArrayList<String> keywords = new ArrayList<String>();
                try {
                    JSONObject send = new JSONObject();
                    JSONObject received = new JSONObject(value);

                    send.put("current_date", getCurrentDate().toString());
                    send.put("activity_time", received.get("CreationTime"));
                    send.put("user_id", received.get("UserId"));
                    send.put("operation_type", received.get("Operation"));
                    send.put("app_name", received.get("Workload"));
                    keywords.add(send.toString());
                    // apply regex to value and for each match add it to keywords

                } catch (Exception e) {
                    // TODO: handle exception
                    System.err.println("Unable to convert to json");
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }

                return keywords;
            }
        }).to("user_activity_by_date");

In this code, I want to check operation type and then depending on that I want to push the streams into the relevant topic.

How can I achieve this?

EDIT:

I have updated my code to this:

final StreamsBuilder builder = new StreamsBuilder();

KStream<String, String> source_o365_user_activity = builder.stream("o365_user_activity");
KStream<String, String>[] branches = source_o365_user_activity.branch( 
      (key, value) -> (value.contains("Operation\":\"SharingSet") && value.contains("ItemType\":\"File")),
      (key, value) -> (value.contains("Operation\":\"AddedToSecureLink") && value.contains("ItemType\":\"File")),
      (key, value) -> true
     );

branches[0].to("o365_sharing_set_by_date");
branches[1].to("o365_added_to_secure_link_by_date");
branches[2].to("o365_user_activity_by_date");

Answer 1

You can use branch method in order to split your stream. This method takes predicates for splitting the source stream into several streams.

The code below is taken from kafka-streams-examples:

KStream<String, OrderValue>[] forks = ordersWithTotals.branch(
    (id, orderValue) -> orderValue.getValue() >= FRAUD_LIMIT,
    (id, orderValue) -> orderValue.getValue() < FRAUD_LIMIT);

forks[0].mapValues(
    orderValue -> new OrderValidation(orderValue.getOrder().getId(), FRAUD_CHECK, FAIL))
    .to(ORDER_VALIDATIONS.name(), Produced
        .with(ORDER_VALIDATIONS.keySerde(), ORDER_VALIDATIONS.valueSerde()));

forks[1].mapValues(
    orderValue -> new OrderValidation(orderValue.getOrder().getId(), FRAUD_CHECK, PASS))
    .to(ORDER_VALIDATIONS.name(), Produced
  .with(ORDER_VALIDATIONS.keySerde(), ORDER_VALIDATIONS.valueSerde()));