Apache Kafka Solver API
DecisionRules.io supports asynchronous calls to the Rule Solver. This option should be used if your infrastructure is based on asynchronous message processing.
Setting up Apache Kafka Solver API
Kafka Solver API is now available both in the cloud and on premise.
Before you start using the Kafka Solver API
Request access rights for your client application to the DecisionRules Kafka Cluster at [email protected]
Configure the connection of your client application to the Kafka cluster.
Register on the assigned Kafka topic, where you will receive the results.
Sending input data to the input Kafka Topic, from which DecisionRules takes it.
Information for connecting to Kafka Cluster
broker
pkc-lq8v7.eu-central-1.aws.confluent.cloud:9092
ssl
true
sasl.mechanism
plain
sasl.username
contact us on [email protected]
sasl.password
contact us on [email protected]
Example Connection Config
Java Configuration
# Required connection configs for Kafka producer, consumer, and admin
bootstrap.servers=pkc-lq8v7.eu-central-1.aws.confluent.cloud:9092
security.protocol=SASL_SSL
sasl.jaas.config=org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username='{{ CLUSTER_API_KEY }}' password='{{ CLUSTER_API_SECRET }}';
sasl.mechanism=PLAIN
# Required for correctness in Apache Kafka clients prior to 2.6
client.dns.lookup=use_all_dns_ips
# Best practice for Kafka producer to prevent data loss
acks=all
Python Configuration
# Kafka
bootstrap.servers=pkc-lq8v7.eu-central-1.aws.confluent.cloud:9092
security.protocol=SASL_SSL
sasl.mechanisms=PLAIN
sasl.username={{ CLUSTER_API_KEY }}
sasl.password={{ CLUSTER_API_SECRET }}
How to communicate from a client application using Kafka Messsages
DecisionRules.io always uses two Kafka topics to communicate with the client application.
Response Topic (read-only)
Topic on which your client application listens
You will receive the evaluated data in this topic
Request Topic (write)
Kafka Topic into which you write data for evaluating DecisionRules
DecisionRules is listening on this topic
Request Topic
{company}-{random_number}-request
WRITE
Response Topic
{company}-{random_number}-response
READ
Producing data to Request Topic
Message Headers
api-key
(mandatory)
Solver API Key. Generate your api key in the dashboard
rule-id OR ruleflow-id
(mandatory)
Rule or RuleFlow ID
x-correlation-id
(optional)
User-generated ID to help you correlate input and output data.
version
(optional)
Version of the rule you want to solve.
Message Data
Key
<empty>
Value
JSON object filled according to the data model called by Rule or RuleFlow
Example Request Data
{
"client": {
"age": 12
}
}
Message Data Schema
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
"type": "object",
"properties": {},
"required": []
}
Consuming Data from Response Topic
data
Array
Field filled with data according to the rule evaluation. One element in the array means one result. For example, if multiple rows are matched when evaluating a decision table, they are returned as array items
errors
Array
If an error occurs in the evaluation for any reason, each error is added to the error field.
If there are no errors in the evaluation, the "errors" attribute is not returned.
The contents of the "data" field will be empty when any error is returned.
correlationId
String
(optional) If the "x-correlation-id" header was filled in the input message, this value is available in the output message.
If "x-correlation-id" is not filled in the input, the attribute is not present in the output.
Example Response Data
{
"data": [
{
"totalProducts": 2,
"amountPerProduct": 500,
"segment": "mass-market",
"profitability": 1.2
}
],
"correlationId": "ef429e33-f2c4-41ad-b9f3-cad12ea3b95e"
}
{
"data": [
{
"totalProducts": 2,
"amountPerProduct": 500,
"segment": "mass-market",
"profitability": 1.2
},
{
"totalProducts": 1,
"amountPerProduct": 300,
"segment": "mass-market",
"profitability": 1.53
}
],
"correlationId": "12429e33-f2c4-41ad-b9f3-cad12ea3b95e"
}
{
"errors": [
{
"code": 500,
"message": "This Rule Flow belongs to another user OR Rule Flow not found"
}
],
"data": [],
"correlationId": "ef429e33-f2c4-41ad-b9f3-cad12ea3b95e"
}
Message Data Schema
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"data": {
"type": "array",
"items": [
{
"type": "object"
}
]
},
"correlationId": {
"type": "string"
},
"errors": {
"type": "array",
"items": [
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"code": {
"type": "integer"
},
"message": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"code",
"message"
]
}
]
}
},
"required": []
}
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