+1 to restrict topic names to ASCII alpha-numeric characters (plus _ and -) in 0.8
I think a compelling case has to be made ( with some real world use cases ) to change this rule if adopted. On Sep 25, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are a few issues related to topic names. First, we have some topic > specific metrics and jmx bean name has certain restrictions (e.g., no space > allowed and maybe others). Second, in 0.8, we have a file that stores high > watermarks. It's a simple text file and expects 1 line per topic/partition. > If topic name has '\r' or '\n', it could mess up the format of the file. A > simple solution is to restrict topic names to ASCII alpha-numeric > characters (plus _ and -) in 0.8. We can try to relax it in the future. > Anybody has concerns with this? > > Thanks, > > Jun
