Kafka Testing
Kafka Records with Headers

Introduction

This page explains how to send Kafka headers through PRODUCE operation for automated Kafka testing

Records With Headers (Produce)

Below are the examples of sample records with headers:

JSON Record

{
                        "key": 101,
                        "value": {
                            "name": "Foo",
                            "addressLine1": "99 Bar Street"
                        },
                        "headers": {
                            "my-company-header1": "my-value1",
                            "correlationId": "e.g.d85e88d2-9393-40a8-9c56-ec29004c45c9"
                        }
}

RAW Record

{
                        "key": 101,
                        "value": "Something",
                        "headers": {
                            "myKey": "MyValue",
                            "correlationId": "e.g.d85e88d2-9899-40a8-9c56-ec29004c45c9"
                        }
}

Test Scenario

A sample PRODUCE and CONSUME scenario would look like below:

{
    "scenarioName": "Produce a message with headers to a Kafka topic",
    "steps": [
        {
            "name": "produce_to_kafka",
            "url": "kafka-topic:demo-json-headers-topic",
            "operation": "PRODUCE",
            "request": {
                "recordType": "JSON",
                "records": [
                    {
                        "key": 101,
                        "value": {
                            "name": "Jey"
                        },
                        "headers": {
                            "myKey": "something",
                            "correlationId": "e.g.d85e88d2-3247-40a8-9c56-ec29004c45c9"
                        }
                    }
                ]
            },
            "assertions": {
                "status": "Ok",
                "recordMetadata": "$NOT.NULL"
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "consume_from_kafka",
            "url": "kafka-topic:demo-json-headers-topic",
            "operation": "unload",
            "request": {
                "consumerLocalConfigs": {
                    "recordType": "JSON",
                    "commitSync": true,
                    "maxNoOfRetryPollsOrTimeouts": 3
                }
            },
            "assertions": {
                "size": 1,
                "records": [
                    {
                        "key": 101,
                        "value": {
                            "name": "Jey"
                        },
                        "headers": {
                            "myKey": "something",
                            "correlationId": "e.g.d85e88d2-3247-40a8-9c56-ec29004c45c9"
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}

or if you are using YAML, you can do it following way:

---
scenarioName: Produce a message with headers to a Kafka topic
steps:
- name: produce_to_kafka
  url: kafka-topic:demo-json-headers-topic
  operation: PRODUCE
  request:
    recordType: JSON
    records:
    - key: 101
      value:
        name: Jey
      headers:
        myKey: something
        correlationId: e.g.d85e88d2-3247-40a8-9c56-ec29004c45c9
  assertions:
    status: Ok
    recordMetadata: "$NOT.NULL"
- name: consume_from_kafka
  url: kafka-topic:demo-json-headers-topic
  operation: unload
  request:
    consumerLocalConfigs:
      recordType: JSON
      commitSync: true
      maxNoOfRetryPollsOrTimeouts: 3
  assertions:
    size: 1
    records:
    - key: 101
      value:
        name: Jey
      headers:
        myKey: something
        correlationId: e.g.d85e88d2-3247-40a8-9c56-ec29004c45c9

Conclusion

Please visit the example module repo for working examples to clone and try at home.

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