This tutorial describes how to send an issue to a topic in Kafka.

To do this, you must install the free Kafka extension to iHub.

Step 1.

Go to the integrations and click Create

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When the Kafka extension is installed there will be a Kafka option.

Enter a name and click create.

Step 2.

On the Kafka action there is 5 mandatory fields to fill in.

1. Topic Name: what topic to post the data to

2. Broker address(s)

3. Producer Id

4. Key serializer - If none is selected it will default to StringSerializer.class

5. Value serializer

6. Optional Include Attachment(s)

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Step 3 - message

The Body section will be the message sent out to the Kafka topic, in here any issue variable or other variable is available to use.

In our example above we will alway post summary and description.

If attachment is selected it will format the message as below:

Where body is the message part written in the last textbox

Files are base64encoded.

Step 4 - Add a trigger

Our trigger will be Issue Created when ever project is KAFKAOUT