Hi Chris,
Thanks for your email.
I've been thinking about this over the weekend and, while I don't really
like --command-config that much, I don't find --client-config to be any
better, to be honest. Sure, the tools happen to use one or more clients,
but that's a kind of implementation detail really. Since the majority of
CLI tools use --command-config, and I don't see a significantly better
alternative, I don't think it's worth the disruption to change the argument
name for all of the tools.
Just my opinion of course.
Thanks,
Andrew
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From: Chris Egerton <fearthecel...@gmail.com>
Sent: 10 July 2025 02:18
To: dev@kafka.apache.org <dev@kafka.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] KIP-1147: Improve consistency of command-line arguments
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the KIP. The mixed dash and dot syntax in --producer.config and
--consumer.config has always vexed me. I just have one thought:
To be honest, like Kirk, I don't love --command-config. While it is the
most common flag name for specifying client properties, it seems both
inaccurate ("command" to me implies the actual CLI tool invocation, but you
can't us it to configure, e.g., the name of the topic being written to/read
from with the console producer/consumer) and vague (I would never
anticipate this name on my own when running any of the CLI tools for the
first time). How would you feel about --client-config?
Cheers,
Chris
On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM Kirk True <k...@kirktrue.pro> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Thanks for the KIP. Yes, the inconsistency drives me crazy :)
>
> Just one initial question:
>
> KT01: During the migration period where both command line arguments are
> supported (e.g. --producer-props and --producer-property), which takes
> precedence?
>
> I'm not ecstatic about the existing naming of "--command-config" because
> it's ambiguous, but that's a battle for another day...
>
> Thanks,
> Kirk
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2025, at 6:53 AM, Andrew Schofield wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'd like to start discussion of KIP-1147. This KIP aligns the names of
> the command-line
> > arguments across all of the Apache Kafka command-line tools.
> >
> > KIP:
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-1147%3A+Improve+consistency+of+command-line+arguments
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andrew
>
