Error in producing data to Kafka using Erlang/ekaf - erlang

Question

I'm trying to connect Kafka and produce some messages using Erlang/ekaf.
The code is a simple example explained in ekaf's README, but will exit when application:start is called.
Please note that I've used gen_icmp:ping to make sure the server running Kafka is accessible to this machine.
I have also run python script to produce some random message to this Kafka and it was successful, so most probably there is something I have missed in my Erlang code. :)
Source:
-module(kafka).
-compile(export_all).
run_test() ->
io:format("run_test: start.~n"),
pingKafka(),
try init_ekaf() of
_ -> io:format("run_test: ok~n")
catch
error:Msg -> io:format("run_test: error: ~p~n", [Msg]);
throw:Msg -> io:format("run_test: throw: ~p~n", [Msg]);
exit:Msg -> io:format("run_test: exit: ~p~n", [Msg])
end.
init_ekaf() ->
io:format("init_ekaf: start.~n"),
application:load(ekaf),
application:set_env(ekaf, ekaf_bootstrap_broker, {"kafka.dev", 9092}),
ok = application:start(ekaf),
io:format("init_ekaf: started.~n"),
Topic = <<"foobar">>,
ekaf:produce_sync(Topic, <<"some data">>),
io:format("init_ekaf: message sent.~n"),
ok.
pingKafka() ->
Res = gen_icmp:ping("kafka.dev"),
io:format("pingKafka: ~p.~n", [Res]),
ok.
Output:
run_test: start.
pingKafka: [{ok,"kafka.dev",
{192,168,0,51},
{192,168,0,51},
{12343,0,64,130},
<<" !\"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?#ABCDEFGHIJK">>}].
init_ekaf: start.
run_test: error: {badmatch,{error,{not_started,gproc}}}
run_test: end.

Answer 1

After reading existing tests in the repository again, I find out that gproc application also need to be started before starting ekaf.
So by adding:
application:start(gproc)
right before application:start(ekaf), the problem solved.
P.S: Found another way to solve the issue which is calling application:ensure_all_started(ekaf) instead of application:start(ekaf).
As mentioned in document, ensure_all_started is an equivalent to calling start/1,2 repeatedly on all dependencies that are not yet started for an application