I've installed WSO2 Integration Studio version 6.5.0 in my Windows workstation and created a project using the Kafka Consumer and Producer built-in template.
api.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<api context="/publishweatherdata" name="WeatherDataPublishAPI" xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse">
<resource methods="POST">
<inSequence>
<kafkaTransport.init>
<bootstrapServers>localhost:9092</bootstrapServers>
<keySerializerClass>org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer</keySerializerClass>
<valueSerializerClass>org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer</valueSerializerClass>
<acks>all</acks>
<requestTimeout>10000</requestTimeout>
<timeout>8000</timeout>
<metadataFetchTimeout>5000</metadataFetchTimeout>
<maxPoolSize>50</maxPoolSize>
</kafkaTransport.init>
<kafkaTransport.publishMessages>
<topic>weatherdatatopic</topic>
</kafkaTransport.publishMessages>
<payloadFactory media-type="json">
<format>
{"topic":"$1", "partition":"$2", "offset":"$3"}
</format>
<args>
<arg evaluator="xml" expression="$ctx:topic"/>
<arg evaluator="xml" expression="$ctx:partition"/>
<arg evaluator="xml" expression="$ctx:offset"/>
</args>
</payloadFactory>
<property name="messageType" scope="axis2" type="STRING" value="application/json"/>
<respond/>
</inSequence>
<outSequence/>
<faultSequence/>
</resource>
</api>
weatherdatatransmitinboundEP.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<inboundEndpoint class="org.wso2.carbon.inbound.kafka.KafkaMessageConsumer" name="WeatherDataTransmitInboundEP" onError="WeatherDataErrorSeq" sequence="WeatherDataProcessSeq" suspend="false" xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse">
<parameters>
<parameter name="sequential">true</parameter>
<parameter name="interval">10</parameter>
<parameter name="coordination">true</parameter>
<parameter name="inbound.behavior">polling</parameter>
<parameter name="value.deserializer">org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer</parameter>
<parameter name="topic.name">weatherdatatopic</parameter>
<parameter name="poll.timeout">100</parameter>
<parameter name="bootstrap.servers">localhost:9092</parameter>
<parameter name="group.id">hello</parameter>
<parameter name="contentType">application/json</parameter>
<parameter name="key.deserializer">org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer</parameter>
<parameter name="class">org.wso2.carbon.inbound.kafka.KafkaMessageConsumer</parameter>
</parameters>
</inboundEndpoint>
WeatherDataPublishService.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<proxy name="WeatherDataPublishService" startOnLoad="true" transports="http https" xmlns="http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse">
<target>
<inSequence>
<kafkaTransport.init>
<bootstrapServers>localhost:9092</bootstrapServers>
<keySerializerClass>org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer</keySerializerClass>
<valueSerializerClass>org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer</valueSerializerClass>
<acks>all</acks>
<requestTimeout>10000</requestTimeout>
<timeout>8000</timeout>
<metadataFetchTimeout>5000</metadataFetchTimeout>
<maxPoolSize>50</maxPoolSize>
</kafkaTransport.init>
<kafkaTransport.publishMessages>
<topic>weatherdatatopic</topic>
</kafkaTransport.publishMessages>
<payloadFactory media-type="json">
<format>
{"topic":"$1", "partition":"$2", "offset":"$3"}
</format>
<args>
<arg evaluator="xml" expression="$ctx:topic"/>
<arg evaluator="xml" expression="$ctx:partition"/>
<arg evaluator="xml" expression="$ctx:offset"/>
</args>
</payloadFactory>
<property name="messageType" scope="axis2" type="STRING" value="application/json"/>
<respond/>
</inSequence>
<outSequence/>
<faultSequence/>
</target>
</proxy>
now I can send post request to http://localhost:8290/publishweatherdata and get it in the kafka topic. Also I can receive message produced by kafka in wso2. How can I send message to external service from wso2? I think I should to use
<endpoint [name="string"] [key="string"]>
address-endpoint | default-endpoint | wsdl-endpoint | load-balanced-endpoint | fail-over-endpoint
</endpoint>
but I have no idea where it must be added and how configured