directors-assistant/Program.cs

using Confluent.Kafka;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
using System;
using System.Threading;

namespace directors_assistant
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            var config = new ConfigurationBuilder()
                .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json", true, true)
                .Build();

            Library.Load(config["kafka location"]);
            var producerConfig = new ProducerConfig
            {
                BootstrapServers = config["bootstrap servers"]
            };
            var consumerConfig = new ConsumerConfig
            {
                BootstrapServers = config["bootstrap servers"],
                GroupId = config["handling group"],
            };

            using (var producer = new ProducerBuilder<Null, string>(producerConfig).Build())
            {
                try
                {
                    producer.Produce(config["topic"], new Message<Null, string> { Value = "" + config["handling group"] });
                }
                catch (ProduceException<Null, string> e)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine($"Delivery failed: {e.Error.Reason}");
                }



                using (var consumer = new ConsumerBuilder<Ignore, string>(consumerConfig).Build())
                {
                    consumer.Subscribe(config["topic"]);

                    CancellationTokenSource cts = new CancellationTokenSource();
                    Console.CancelKeyPress += (_, e) =>
                    {
                        e.Cancel = true; // prevent the process from terminating.
                        cts.Cancel();
                    };
                    try
                    {
                        while (true)
                        {
                            try
                            {
                                var cr = consumer.Consume(cts.Token);
                                Console.WriteLine($"Consumed message '{cr.Message.Value}' at: '{cr.TopicPartitionOffset}'.");
                            }
                            catch (ConsumeException e)
                            {
                                Console.WriteLine($"Error occured: {e.Error.Reason}");
                            }
                        }
                    }
                    catch (OperationCanceledException)
                    {
                        consumer.Close();
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}