Status

Current state: [One of "Under Discussion", "Accepted", "Rejected"]

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JIRA: KAFKA-3294 

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Motivation

The goal is to add Kafka Rest Server/Proxy to Kafka Repository. This will allow any language/tool that
can work with HTTP to produce and consume messages, and perform administrative actions with Kafka service.

Why add Kafka Rest Server/Proxy to Kafka?

There are already some open-source REST proxies are available. Some are specific to a particular user cases
Confluent REST Proxy got comprehensive interface. We want to add Kafka Rest Server to Kafka for the following reasons.

1) Many data Infra tools comes up with Rest Interface. It is useful to have inbuilt Rest API support for Produce,
   Consume messages and admin interface for integrating with external management tools.
2) Shipping Kafka Rest Server as part of a normal Kafka release makes it immediately available to every user that downloads Kafka.
3) Helps to maintain the version compatibility between kafka and Rest APIs.
 

Some of the good practices and ideas will be borrowed from existing tools.

Proposed Changes

Public Interfaces

Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

• This KIP only proposes additions. There should be no compatibility issues.

  
  

Rejected Alternatives

Make Kafka Rest Server an external third-party tool:

Main Reason for this KIP is to add Rest Server to Kafka. Shipping Kafka Rest Server as part of a normal Kafka release
makes it immediately available to every user that downloads Kafka. Also helps to maintain the version ccompatibility
between Kafka clients and Rest APIs.