I'm stuck on this problem and I can't figure out what's going on. I am trying to use Kafka streams to write a log to a topic. On the other end, I have Kafka-connect entering the each entry into MySQL. So, basically what I need is a Kafka streams program which reads a topic as strings and parses it into Avro format and then enters it into a different topic.
Here's the code I wrote:
        //Define schema
        String userSchema = "{"
                + "\"type\":\"record\","
                + "\"name\":\"myrecord\","
                + "\"fields\":["
                + "  { \"name\":\"ID\", \"type\":\"int\" },"
                + "  { \"name\":\"COL_NAME_1\", \"type\":\"string\" },"
                + "  { \"name\":\"COL_NAME_2\", \"type\":\"string\" }"
    + "]}";
        String key = "key1";
        Schema.Parser parser = new Schema.Parser();
        Schema schema = parser.parse(userSchema);
//Settings
       System.out.println("Kafka Streams Demonstration");
        //Settings
        Properties settings = new Properties();
        // Set a few key parameters
        settings.put(StreamsConfig.APPLICATION_ID_CONFIG, APP_ID);
        // Kafka bootstrap server (broker to talk to); ubuntu is the host name for my VM running Kafka, port 9092 is where the (single) broker listens
        settings.put(StreamsConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, "localhost:9092");
        // Apache ZooKeeper instance keeping watch over the Kafka cluster; ubuntu is the host name for my VM running Kafka, port 2181 is where the ZooKeeper listens
        settings.put(StreamsConfig.ZOOKEEPER_CONNECT_CONFIG, "localhost:2181");
        // default serdes for serialzing and deserializing key and value from and to streams in case no specific Serde is specified
        settings.put(StreamsConfig.KEY_SERDE_CLASS_CONFIG, Serdes.String().getClass().getName());
        settings.put(StreamsConfig.VALUE_SERDE_CLASS_CONFIG, Serdes.String().getClass().getName());
        settings.put(StreamsConfig.STATE_DIR_CONFIG ,"/tmp");
        // to work around exception Exception in thread "StreamThread-1" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid timestamp -1
        // at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerRecord.<init>(ProducerRecord.java:60)
        // see: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/confluent-platform/5oT0GRztPBo
        // Create an instance of StreamsConfig from the Properties instance
        StreamsConfig config = new StreamsConfig(getProperties());
        final Serde < String > stringSerde = Serdes.String();
        final Serde < Long > longSerde = Serdes.Long();
        final Serde<byte[]> byteArraySerde = Serdes.ByteArray();
        // building Kafka Streams Model                                                                                                                                                       
        KStreamBuilder kStreamBuilder = new KStreamBuilder();
        // the source of the streaming analysis is the topic with country messages                                                                                                            
        KStream<byte[], String> instream =
            kStreamBuilder.stream(byteArraySerde, stringSerde, "sqlin");
       final KStream<byte[], GenericRecord> outstream = instream.mapValues(new ValueMapper<String, GenericRecord>() {
            @Override
            public GenericRecord apply(final String record) {
                System.out.println(record);
                GenericRecord avroRecord = new GenericData.Record(schema);
                String[] array = record.split(" ", -1);
                for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i = i + 1) {
                    if (i == 0)
                        avroRecord.put("ID", Integer.parseInt(array[0]));
                    if (i == 1)
                        avroRecord.put("COL_NAME_1", array[1]);
                    if (i == 2)
                        avroRecord.put("COL_NAME_2", array[2]);
                }
                System.out.println(avroRecord);
                return avroRecord;
            }
          });
        outstream.to("sqlout");
Here's the output after I get a Null Pointer Exception:
java -cp streams-examples-3.2.1-standalone.jar io.confluent.examples.streams.sql Kafka Streams Demonstration Start Now started CountriesStreams Example 5 this is {"ID": 5, "COL_NAME_1": "this", "COL_NAME_2": "is"} Exception in thread "StreamThread-1" java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.SinkNode.process(SinkNode.java:81) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.ProcessorContextImpl.forward(ProcessorContextImpl.java:83) at org.apache.kafka.streams.kstream.internals.KStreamMapValues$KStreamMapProcessor.process(KStreamMapValues.java:42) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.ProcessorNode$1.run(ProcessorNode.java:48) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamsMetricsImpl.measureLatencyNs(StreamsMetricsImpl.java:188) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.ProcessorNode.process(ProcessorNode.java:134) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.ProcessorContextImpl.forward(ProcessorContextImpl.java:83) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.SourceNode.process(SourceNode.java:70) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamTask.process(StreamTask.java:197) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.runLoop(StreamThread.java:627) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.run(StreamThread.java:361)
The topic sqlin contains a few message which consists of a digit followed by two words. Note the two print lines: The function gets one message, and successfully parses it before catching a null pointer. The problem is I am new to Java, Kafka, and Avro so I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. Did I set up the Avro Schema right? Or am using kstream wrong? Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
 
     
    