def consumer()

in metron-sensors/pycapa/pycapa/consumer.py [0:0]


def consumer(args, poll_timeout=3.0):
    """ Consumes packets from a Kafka topic. """

    # setup the signal handler
    signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal_handler)

    # where to start consuming messages from
    kafka_offset_options = {
        "begin": seek_to_begin,
        "end": seek_to_end,
        "stored": seek_to_stored
    }
    on_assign_cb = kafka_offset_options[args.kafka_offset]

    # connect to kafka
    logging.debug("Connecting to Kafka; %s", args.kafka_configs)
    kafka_consumer = Consumer(args.kafka_configs)
    kafka_consumer.subscribe([args.kafka_topic], on_assign=on_assign_cb)

    # if 'pretty-print' not set, write libpcap global header
    if args.pretty_print == 0:
        sys.stdout.write(global_header(args))
        sys.stdout.flush()

    try:
        pkts_in = 0
        while not finished.is_set() and (args.max_packets <= 0 or pkts_in < args.max_packets):

            # consume a message from kafka
            msg = kafka_consumer.poll(timeout=poll_timeout)
            if msg is None:
                # no message received
                continue;

            elif msg.error():

                if msg.error().code() == KafkaError._PARTITION_EOF:
                    if args.pretty_print > 0:
                        print "Reached end of topar: topic=%s, partition=%d, offset=%s" % (
                            msg.topic(), msg.partition(), msg.offset())
                else:
                    raise KafkaException(msg.error())

            else:
                pkts_in += 1
                logging.debug("Packet received: pkts_in=%d", pkts_in)

                if args.pretty_print == 0:

                    # write the packet header and packet
                    sys.stdout.write(packet_header(msg))
                    sys.stdout.write(msg.value())
                    sys.stdout.flush()

                elif pkts_in % args.pretty_print == 0:

                    # pretty print
                    print 'Packet[%s]: date=%s topic=%s partition=%s offset=%s len=%s' % (
                        pkts_in, to_date(unpack_ts(msg.key())), args.kafka_topic,
                        msg.partition(), msg.offset(), len(msg.value()))

    finally:
        sys.stdout.close()
        kafka_consumer.close()