Hi Timothy, While we are on the subject, few questions/comments (based on the trunk implementation of delete topic command):
* After deleting a topic, I still see it when listing topics. Is the expected behavior? Should it disappear after some time? * When does the actual deletion gets triggered? * If I try to delete a topic twice I get a pretty confusing exception (Node exists from zkclient). It will be nice to catch this and say "Topic is being deleted" or something to this effect. * Even nicer if list topics command will mark topics as "being deleted". I'll probably open a separate Jira for the "nice" behavior, but interested in hearing your thoughts. Gwen On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Timothy Chen <tnac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is this the latest master? I've added the delete option in trunk, but > it's not in any release yet. > > We used to have the delete option flag but I believe we removed it > that's why the documentation difference. > > Tim > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Shlomi Hazan <shl...@viber.com> wrote: >> if the answer is pointing out the 'chroot', as a word, it makes no >> difference. the result is the same: >> >> kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181/chroot --delete >> --topic topic-3 >> >> gives the same: >> >> "Command must include exactly one action: --list, --describe, --create or >> --alter..." >> >> or should I write something instead of "chroot"? >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Shlomi Hazan <shl...@viber.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Doing some evaluation testing, and accidently create a queue with wrong >>> replication factor. >>> >>> Trying to delete as in: >>> >>> kafka_2.10-0.8.1.1/bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --delete >>> --topic replicated-topic >>> >>> Yeilded: >>> >>> Command must include exactly one action: --list, --describe, --create or >>> –alter >>> >>> Event though this page (https://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html) says: >>> >>> >>> >>> And finally deleting a topic: >>> >>> > bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper zk_host:port/chroot --delete --topic >>> my_topic_name >>> >>> WARNING: Delete topic functionality is beta in 0.8.1. Please report any >>> bugs that you encounter on themailing list <%20us...@kafka.apache.org> or >>> JIRA <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA>. >>> >>> Kafka does not currently support reducing the number of partitions for a >>> topic or changing the replication factor. >>> >>> What should I do? >>> >>> Shlomi >>>