Kafkacat -G Switch

[Brettuss]

Thanks for this awesome module. I am currently using PSKafka with PowerShell 5 on a WIndows Server 2019 machine. We are connecting to a Kafka 2.4.0 broker that is running on a single CentOS VM in Azure.

I noticed the Kafkacat.exe included with the module doesn't support the -G switch and the -ConsumerGroup option in the Read-KafkaTopic cmdlet results in a syntax error when the kafkacat command is built and executed.

I grabbed the source from GitHub and recompiled and still no luck, -G isn't even there to use.

I am curious if you have run into this and if so, how you went about fixing this.

[Stephanevg]

Hi @Brettuss

This project looks like is dead. But which version of kafkacat client you used when you recompiled? I noticed that pskafka ships with version 1.4, and version 1.6 is currently the latest one. Maybe that is what you are looking for?

[SchraegerWeg]

Does anyone know which kafkacat.exe or kcat.exe versions provide -G <ConsumerGroup> support?

Thanks.

[drlsdee]

The latest version of kcat (formerly kafkacat) supports Kafka consumer groups in general, but this functionality does not work in the Windows version.

Details of the issue can be found in issue edenhill#425, as well as a possible solution proposed in PR edenhill#426 by mine.

Yes, looks like the original project is abandoned and my PR will never be merged, but you're welcome to use it as is as well as maintain your own fork.