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Confluent Kafka assets package

The Confluent Kafka assets package crawls Confluent Kafka assets and publishes them to Atlan for discovery.

Direct extraction

Will create a new connection

This should only be used to create the workflow the first time. Each time you run this method it will create a new connection and new assets within that connection — which could lead to duplicate assets if you run the workflow this way multiple times with the same settings.

Instead, when you want to re-crawl assets, re-run the existing workflow (see Re-run existing workflow below).

To crawl assets directly from Confluent Kafka:

Direct extraction from Confluent Kafka
Workflow crawler = ConfluentKafkaCrawler.creator( // (1)
client, // (2)
"production", // (3)
List.of(client.getRoleCache().getIdForName("$admin")), // (4)
null,
null
)
.direct( // (5)
"dev-south.aws.confluent.cloud:9092",
true
)
.apiToken(
"api-key-here", // (6)
"api-secret-here" // (7)
)
.skipInternal(true) // (8)
.include(".*_DEV_TOPICS") // (9)
.exclude(".*_TEST") // (10)
.build() // (11)
.toWorkflow(); // (12)
WorkflowResponse response = crawler.run(client); // (13)
  1. The ConfluentKafkaCrawler package will create a workflow to crawl assets from Confluent Kafka.

  2. You must provide Atlan client.

  3. You must provide a name for the connection that the Confluent Kafka assets will exist within.

  4. You must specify at least one connection admin, either:

    • everyone in a role (in this example, all $admin users).
    • a list of groups (names) that will be connection admins.
    • a list of users (names) that will be connection admins.
  5. When crawling assets directly from Confluent Kafka, you are required to provide the following information:

    • hostname and port number (host.example.com:9092) for the Kafka bootstrap server.
    • whether to use an encrypted SSL connection (true), or plaintext (false)
  6. You must provide an API key through which to access Kafka.

  7. You must provide API secret through which to access Kafka.

  8. You can also optionally set whether to skip internal topics when crawling (true) or include them (false).

  9. You can also optionally provide the regular expression to use for including topics when crawling.

  10. You can also optionally provide the regular expression to use for excluding topics when crawling.

  11. Build the minimal package object.

  12. Now, you can convert the package into a Workflow object.

  13. You can then run the workflow using the run() method on the object you've created. Because this operation will execute work in Atlan, you must provide it an AtlanClient through which to connect to the tenant.

    Workflows run asynchronously

Remember that workflows run asynchronously. See the packages and workflows introduction for details on how you can check the status and wait until the workflow has been completed. :::

Re-run existing workflow

To re-run an existing workflow for Confluent Kafka assets:

Re-run existing Confluent Kafka workflow
List<WorkflowSearchResult> existing = WorkflowSearchRequest // (1)
.findByType(client, ConfluentKafkaCrawler.PREFIX, 5); // (2)
// Determine which of the results is the Confluent Kafka workflow you want to re-run...
WorkflowRunResponse response = existing.get(n).rerun(client); // (3)
  1. You can search for existing workflows through the WorkflowSearchRequest class.

  2. You can find workflows by their type using the findByType() helper method and providing the prefix for one of the packages. In this example, we do so for the ConfluentKafkaCrawler. (You can also specify the maximum number of resulting workflows you want to retrieve as results.)

  3. Once you've found the workflow you want to re-run, you can simply call the rerun() helper method on the workflow search result. The WorkflowRunResponse is just a subtype of WorkflowResponse so has the same helper method to monitor progress of the workflow run. Because this operation will execute work in Atlan, you must provide it an AtlanClient through which to connect to the tenant.

    • Optionally, you can use the rerun(client, true) method with idempotency to avoid re-running a workflow that is already in running or in a pending state. This will return details of the already running workflow if found, and by default, it is set to false
    Workflows run asynchronously

Remember that workflows run asynchronously. See the packages and workflows introduction for details on how you can check the status and wait until the workflow has been completed. :::

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