identifyingName

Event stream name

Since R2022b

This function requires Streaming Data Framework for MATLAB^® Production Server™.

Syntax

name = identifyingName(stream)

Description

name = identifyingName(stream) returns the name that uniquely identifies an event stream. If the stream provider is Kafka^®, this name is the name of the topic that the stream is connected to.

Examples

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Get Name of Kafka Topic

Assume that you have a Kafka server running at the network address kafka.host.com:9092 that has a topic CoolingFan.

Create an object for reading from and writing to the Kafka topic CoolingFan.

ks = kafkaStream("kafka.host.com",9092,"CoolingFan")

ks = 

  KafkaStream with properties:

                  Topic: "CoolingFan"
                GroupID: "425b8750-87ee-4d86-8e06-6f1a1ebfe009"
                  Order: EventTime
                   Host: "kafka.host.com"
                   Port: 9092
      ConnectionTimeout: 30
         RequestTimeout: 61
      NumTimeoutRetries: 1
                  State: Idle
             WindowSize: 0
            KeyVariable: "key"
            KeyEncoding: "utf16"
                KeyType: "text"
           KeyByteOrder: "BigEndian"
           BodyEncoding: "utf8"
             BodyFormat: "JSON"
             ImportBody: 1
          ImportOptions: [0×0 matlab.io.stream.event.ImportOptions]
          ExportOptions: [1×1 matlab.io.stream.event.ExportOptions]
          PublishSchema: 1
              ReadLimit: "Size"
    TimestampResolution: "Milliseconds"
             WindowUnit: None
                   Name: "CoolingFan"

Get the name of the Kafka topic.

identifyingName(ks)

ans = 

    "CoolingFan"

Input Arguments

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`stream` — Object connected to event stream
`KafkaStream` object | `InMemoryStream` object | `TestStream` object

Object connected to an event stream, specified as a KafkaStream, InMemoryStream, or TestStream object.

Version History

Introduced in R2022b