kafka-consumer: remove the librdkafka dependency
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- Dominant language
- Go
- Stars
- 56
- Forks
- 63
- Avg merge
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem?
The Kafka consumer utility depends on confluent-kafka-go and its bundled librdkafka. Its Alpine image requires SASL development and runtime libraries, and its blocking message read cannot promptly respond to context cancellation when no messages arrive.
Describe the feature you'd like
Use a Go Kafka client for the consumer utility while retaining manual offset commits, earliest offset reset, range assignment, and the existing TLS flags. Consumption should stop when its context is canceled, including while idle.
Teachability, Documentation, Adoption, Migration Strategy
This tracks the Kafka client migration independently from the parallel processing and codec changes in #6286. The existing command-line interface should remain usable.
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Research direction
No files or tests are named; start by locating the Kafka consumer utility and its confluent-kafka-go usage, then trace the existing CLI flags and consumption loop. Done means the utility uses a Go Kafka client while preserving manual commits, earliest reset, range assignment, TLS flags, CLI usability, and prompt cancellation while idle.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go, kafka
- Domain
- cli, stream-processing
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100