Add new Kafka messages to topics and partitions

To control the properties of messages that are created during the Put New or Load from File processes, see the Message Commands Tab.
For field descriptions of Kafka message properties, see Message Properties: Kafka, Solace, RabbitMQ, and TIBCO EMS.

Some of the content described in this article is available in meshIQ Manage versions 11.1.1 and later. See meshIQ platform Highlights v11.1 for an overview of feature changes.

Adding messages to queues is performed on the Add new message to dialog. 

You get to this window in one of two ways:

• Click the Put New button  from a Message viewlet.
• Or, select Messages > Put New Message from the Action menu of a topic or partition.

The instructions below explain how to add a message from the Action menu.

1. Within the topic or partition viewlet, select the topic or partition you want to put messages on. From the Action menu, select Messages > Put New Message.
2. On the General tab, Specify the Number of Messages.
3. The Message Size (bytes) is filled in as you .
4. If applicable, use the File attachment browse button to locate a file to attach to the message.
5. (Optional.) Enter a Message Key. By default, a Kafka message is placed on a partition according to its key.
6. When putting a message on a topic, you can also specify a Partition for the message to go to. If you don’t specify a partition, the Key is used to determine the partition. (If you are putting a message to a specific Partition, the Partition field is not shown.)
7. Within the Data section, enter the message body. You can check the Text only checkbox to display the message content as text, or leave it off to view message content as code.
8. Select the Headers tab. Add headers as Key-Value pairs:
   1. Enter the Header Name and its corresponding Value.
      
   2. Click . 
9. Click OK.