2.2 Consumer API

The Consumer API allows applications to read streams of data from topics in the Kafka cluster.

Examples showing how to use the consumer are given in the javadocs.

To use the consumer, you can use the following maven dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
    <artifactId>kafka-clients</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.0</version>
</dependency>