The Kafka CLI you've always wanted.
coursier bootstrap -r https://packages.confluent.io/maven/ com.lewisjkl:kafkakit_2.13:0.0.5 -o kafkakitCurrently, their is no way to build your configuration file through the CLI itself, so for now you just have to create a json file at ~/.kafkakit.json. The file needs to be of the format:
{
"kafkaClusters" : [
{
"nickname" : "local",
"bootstrapServers" : "localhost:9092",
"defaultKeyFormat" : "Avro",
"defaultValueFormat" : "Avro",
"schemaRegistryUrl" : "http://localhost:8081"
}
],
"defaultClusterNickname" : "local"
}You must specify at least one Kafka cluster in your configuration. The cluster that you provide as defaultClusterNickname will be the cluster that is automatically selected if you don't specify a different cluster when running a command. Currently supported deserialization formats are Avro and String. If you are not using Avro, you don't need to specify the schemaRegistryUrl.
Thank you to @kubukoz since I relied on his spotify-next repo when creating this project.