[CAMEL-16138] Allow KafkaClientFactory to be used without explicit broker URLs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.8.0
• Component/s: camel-kafka
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: John Poth
• Reporter: Nicola Ferraro
• Created: 03/Feb/21 11:58
• Updated: 09/Mar/21 11:43
• Resolved: 09/Feb/21 06:51

Description

CAMEL-16071 has added support for KafkaClientFactory (thanks to Javier Holguera). It allows plugging a different implementation of the Kafka Producer/Consumer, but the component still requires setting the "brokers" configuration property in the component/endpoint, otherwise an IllegalArgumentException is thrown.

 

This prevents users and platforms to plug implementations of the Kafka Producers/Consumers with fully externalized configuration (e.g. in Camel-Quarkus we may be able in the near future to plug configuration injected into files via Kubernetes service-binding).

 

I think the check on the presence of the "brokers" property should be moved into the default factory.

 

cc: John Poth

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5188