kafka-mocha 0.1.0a9

A Kafka mock library that is designed to be used in integration tests for applications using librdkafka.

Embedded Kafka (Kafka Simulator) for Python

Embedded Kafka is a mocking library for the confluent_kafka library used for Apache Kafka. Its goal is to ease the effort of writing integration tests that utilize Producer and/or Consumer instances. Of course, you can always span your own Kafka Cluster just for testing purposes, but it is not always the best solution.

With kafka_mocha you no longer need to have a Kafka Cluster running to test your Kafka-related code. Instead, you can use the KProducer and KConsumer (by simply decorating your code with @mock_producer/@mock_consumer) and check the behavior of your code - or even the messages that are being produced and consumed in the browser!

Inspiration for this project comes from the moto library, which provides a similar feature for AWS SDK.

Project Overview

The main component of this project is a process called KafkaSimulator which simulates the behavior of an actual Kafka Cluster, within the bounds of implementation limitations. The current version includes a KProducer class that acts as a mock for the Producer from the confluent_kafka package. A KConsumer class is still under development.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
  • Starting Kafka Simulator
  • KProducer
  • KConsumer
• Contributing
• License

Installation

Official Release

pip install kafka_mocha

or using your favorite package manager, e.g. poetry:

poetry add kafka_mocha

Prerelease or Development Version

From GitHub (development version):

pip install git+https://github.com/Effiware/kafka-mocha@develop

or as published (prerelease) version:

poetry add kafka_mocha --allow-prereleases

Usage

Starting Kafka Simulator

Kafka Simulator is automatically ran whenever any instance of either KProdcer or KConsumer is created (e.g. via mock_producer, mock_consumer). So there is no need to manually start it.

Upon default logging settings a custom start-up messages might be visible:

INFO     kafka_simulator > Kafka Simulator initialized
INFO     ticking_thread  > Buffer for KProducer(4368687344): ticking initialized
INFO     buffer_handler  > Buffer for KProducer(4368687344) has been primed, size: 300, timeout: 2
INFO     kafka_simulator > Kafka Simulator initialized
INFO     kafka_simulator > Handle producers has been primed
INFO     kafka_simulator > Kafka Simulator initialized
INFO     ticking_thread  > Buffer for KProducer(4368687344): ticking started

Additionally, all the messages produced by the KProducer instances are stored in the KafkaSimulator instance. The messages can be dropped to either HTML or CSV file by passing output parameter, see KProucer and outputs for more details.

KProducer

To use the KProducer class in your tests, you need to import it from the kafka_simulator package:

import confluent_kafka

from kafka_mocha import mock_producer

@mock_producer()
def handle_produce():
    """Most basic usage of the KProducer class. For more go to `examples` directory."""
    producer = confluent_kafka.Producer({"bootstrap.servers": "localhost:9092"})
    producer.produce("test-topic", "some value".encode(), "key".encode())
    producer.flush()

The KProducer class replicates the interface and behavior of the Producer class from the confluent_kafka library.

Parameters for mock_producer

No	Parameter name	Parameter type	Comment
1	loglevel	Literal	See available levels in logging library
2	output	Literal	html, csv or int - output format of messages emitted
3

KConsumer

The KConsumer class is still under development. It will replicate the interface and behavior of the Consumer class from the confluent_kafka library.

Parameters for mock_consumer

No	Parameter name	Parameter type	Comment
1	loglevel	Literal	See available levels in logging library
2
3

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Before posting your first PR, please see our contributing guidelines for more details.

Also, bear in mind that this project uses Poetry for dependency management. If you are not familiar with it, please first read the Poetry documentation and:

1. Setup poetry environment (recommended)
2. Don't overwrite the pyproject.toml file manually (Poetry will do it for you)
3. Don't recreate the poetry.lock (unless you know what you are doing)

Cloning the repository

git clone [e-mail]:Effiware/kafka-mocha.git
cd kafka-mocha

Installing dependencies

Default (and recommended) way:

poetry install --with test

Standard way:

poetry export -f requirements.txt --output requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt

Running tests

Currently, test configuration is set up to run with pytest and kept in pytest.ini file. You can run them with:

poetry run pytest

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.