Brodex - a thin wrapper for brod (wip) - request for feedback!

Hi all!

Backgorund

As I onboard non-Elixir dev to Elixir projects, one of my goal is to find out any missing pieces or challenges they see.

Currently all Elixir projects are using brod directly - and it works great, but documentation (since it’s eralng project) and interface is somewhat confusing.

So I’m building very thin, mostly unopinionated wrapper of brod.

Goal

• Add thin layer
• Keep the all data as-is (e.g. keep charlist, and records)
• Provide utilities (e.g. functions to convert record to struct, guards for records)
• Clean up interface

Non-goals

• Add any more abstraction - such as new supervisor/genserver
• Have wrapper functions for all brod functions

Status

The current WIP is at WIP - initial implementation by chulkilee · Pull Request #1 · chulkilee/brodex · GitHub

I’m focusing on area my projects are using.

Notes

First of all, thanks a lot for brod maintainers and contributors!

• Maybe it can be part of brod project like jose does - but I’m not sure it’s a good idea to have different func defs/args between erlang/elixir.
• I need to take a look on interfaces of kafka_ex - or I may switch to it (and drop Brodex)