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Jay Kreps commented on KAFKA-495: --------------------------------- It would be good to first work out the regular expression for valid topic names. It might also be nice to have a helper class TopicName that we use when the string being passed is meant as a topic name which applies this regex so we can be sure we are always checking validity. > Handle topic names with "/" on Kafka server > ------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-495 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-495 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.7, 0.8 > Reporter: Neha Narkhede > Assignee: Swapnil Ghike > Labels: bugs > Fix For: 0.8, 0.7.1 > > Attachments: kafka-495-v1.patch > > > If a producer publishes data to topic "foo/foo", the Kafka server ends up > creating an invalid directory structure on the server. This corrupts the > zookeeper data structure for the topic - /brokers/topics/foo/foo. This leads > to rebalancing failures on the consumer as well as errors on the zookeeper > based producer. > We need to harden the invalid topic handling on the Kafka server side to > avoid this. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira