Connectors are system components that link external services with a fluvio cluster. Connectors communicate with stateful streaming via topics.
For instance a source connector may generate records into a topic http-data
, and the dataflow reads from it. After completing the dataflow operation, it writes the results into another topic http-data-results
. Finally, a sink connector sends these events to an external service.
In the following examples, we'll use the CDK CLI to download the HTTP sink connector from InfinyOn Hub and generate synthetic data for dataflows.
InfinyOn provides several data sets that you can use to generate synthetic data, which we'll describe below.
Use CDK
to download the http-sink connector to your local machine.
cdk hub download infinyon/[email protected]
The following configuration reads a quote
every two seconds. Copy the file to your local system:
# quotes-periodic.yaml
apiVersion: 0.2.0
meta:
version: 0.4.3
name: quotes-periodic
type: http-source
topic: quotes
http:
endpoint: "https://demo-data.infinyon.com/api/quote"
interval: 2s
Use CDK to download and run the connector:
cdk hub download infinyon/[email protected]
cdk deploy start --ipkg infinyon-http-source-0.4.3.ipkg -c quotes-periodic.yaml
Checkout the result:
fluvio consume quotes
To stop the connector, run:
cdk deploy shutdown --name quotes-periodic
The following configuration streams from the stream-quote
endpoint, which is pre-configured to generate 2 quotes per second.
# quotes-stream.yaml
apiVersion: 0.2.0
meta:
version: 0.4.3
name: quotes-stream
type: http-source
topic: quotes
http:
endpoint: https://demo-data.infinyon.com/api/stream-quote
method: GET
stream: true
delimiter: "\n\n"
Copy the configuration to a file and star the connector on your local machine:
cdk deploy start --ipkg infinyon-http-source-0.4.3.ipkg -c quotes-stream.yaml
Checkout the result:
fluvio consume quotes
To stop the connector, run:
cdk deploy shutdown --name quotes-stream