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Last updated 12 months ago

This section is specific to the definition of API specs with for Kafka protocol.

Also, take into account that across the section there will be multiple references to this which is publicly available for reference.

Kafka to AsyncAPI concept mapping

Kafka Concept
AsyncAPI Concept

broker

server

topic

channel

consumer

subscriber

producer

publisher

First level items in AsyncAPI structure

Element
Meaning

asyncapi

Specifies the AsyncAPI specification version

info

Provides metadata about the API such as the version, title and description

servers

Describes servers where the API is available

channels

Defines the channels through which messages are received/published

components

Reusable elements to be references across the spec

AsyncAPI
AsyncAPI reference specification