connect-gcp-firebase-source

GCP Firebase Source connector

Objective

Quickly test GCP Firebase Source connector.

• Active Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account with authorization to create resources

GCP Firebase Setup

Service Account setup

Create Service Account from IAM & Admin console:

Set Service account name:

Choose permission Firebase->Firebase Realtime Database Viewer

Create Key:

Download it as JSON:

Rename it to keyfile.json and place it in ./keyfile.json

Realtime Database setup

Go to Firebase console, click Add Project and choose your GCP project.

In your console, click Databaseon the left sidebar:

Click on Realtime Database:

Click on Enable:

Click on vertical dots on the right hand side and choose Import JSON:

Browse to file ./musicBlog.json and import it

You should see:

How to run

Simply run:

$ ./gcp-firebase-source.sh <PROJECT>

Details of what the script is doing

Creating GCP Firebase Source connector

$ curl -X PUT \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     --data '{
               "connector.class" : "io.confluent.connect.firebase.FirebaseSourceConnector",
                    "tasks.max" : "1",
                    "gcp.firebase.credentials.path": "/root/keyfiles/keyfile.json",
                    "gcp.firebase.database.reference": "https://'"$PROJECT"'.firebaseio.com/musicBlog",
                    "gcp.firebase.snapshot":"true",
                    "confluent.topic.bootstrap.servers": "broker:9092",
                    "confluent.topic.replication.factor": "1"
          }' \
     http://localhost:8083/connectors/firebase-source/config | jq .

Verify messages are in topic artists

$ docker exec connect kafka-avro-console-consumer -bootstrap-server broker:9092 --property schema.registry.url=http://schema-registry:8081 --topic artists --from-beginning --max-messages 3

Results:

{"genre":"Pop","name":"Michael Jackson"}
{"genre":"American folk","name":"Bob Dylan"}
{"genre":"Rock","name":"Freddie Mercury"}

Verify messages are in topic songs

$ docker exec connect kafka-avro-console-consumer -bootstrap-server broker:9092 --property schema.registry.url=http://schema-registry:8081 --topic songs --from-beginning --max-messages 3

Results:

{"artist":"Michael Jackson","title":"billie jean"}
{"artist":"Bob Dylan","title":"hurricane"}
{"artist":"Freddie Mercury","title":"bohemian rhapsody"}

N.B: Control Center is reachable at http://127.0.0.1:9021