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joeward/kafka-cannon
====================

Fires events at kafka

0.0.10(7y ago)011MITPHP

Since Sep 14Pushed 7y agoCompare

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Kafka Cannon

Why?
----

[](#why)

TBA

Installing
----------

[](#installing)

```
$> composer require joeward/kafka-cannon
```

Ensure that you have setup kafka-cannon.yml as below

Topics: Have topic name underneath

Payload: Information is stored within payload. These can be hard coded or left as blank/used with the random-data option

Attribute-type: Is the type which is also used in the url

Enabled: Signifies if to include the topic for testing, true/false value

Random-data: signifies if you want to seed your blank payload values with random data. true/false value

Broker: Is the kafka url

Order: Choose between sequential or random. Sequential fires the topics as displayed in the yaml, random means order is random

Ammo: How many times you want the topics to be published/fired

```
topics:
    test_topic:
            payload:
                  Id: 123
                  Name: testname
                  testfield:
                  morefields:
                  andmorefields:
                  andmore:
            attribute-type: test
            enabled: true
            random-data: true
    my_other_topic:
            payload:
                  Id: 456
                  Name: testname2
                  otherfield:
                  lotsofdata:
            attribute-type: test2
            enabled: true
            random-data: true
broker: 1
order: sequential
ammo: 5
```

Use
---

[](#use)

Call kafka-fire from project root

```
$> vendor/joeward/kafka-cannon/src/kafka-fire.php
```

Known Issues
------------

[](#known-issues)

Not in bin

Notes
-----

[](#notes)

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

9

Last Release

2795d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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