https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2945 and related jiras is probably what you are looking for. That is planned for the next release.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Tommy Becker <tobec...@tivo.com> wrote: > This works, but it's clumsy and has limitations. Unfortunately, I'm not > aware of any alternatives. We do some programmatic topic creation when we > want to create a topic with a non-default configuration. But specifying the > configuration is an all or nothing affair. For example, there's no way to > say create this topic using all the defaults except enable log compaction. > Worse, I don't think there's a way to get what the default topic > configuration is from the client. I'd like to see some improvements here. > > On 01/20/2016 08:24 AM, Timo Ahokas wrote: > > Hi Joe, > > We're doing a similar thing that you're looking for with some of our app > nodes. We use the kafka.admin.AdminTools and its > topicExists()/createTopic() methods. Some additional code (e.g. Kafka > context check/creation) might be needed for dev/test environments if you're > using a specific Kafka context instead of the root. > > -Timo > > On 20 January 2016 at 23:14, Joe San <codeintheo...@gmail.com><mailto: > codeintheo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I doubt that might be enough. Could you tell me if the > auto.create.topics.enable satisfies the following requirement? > > 1. I want to create a topic with a specific name > 2. If I restart the producer client, if the topic with that name already > exists, it should do nothing and use the topic as is > 3. Upon producer restart, if the topic already exists, and if the topic has > un consumed messages, it should not be deleted > > Thanks and Regards, > Joe > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Franco Giacosa <fgiac...@gmail.com > ><mailto:fgiac...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi Joe, > > There is an option in the producer called auto.create.topics.enable, so > > > the > > > producer can just start sending data to a topic and the topic will be > created with the default values. > > > > 2016-01-20 13:19 GMT+01:00 Joe San <codeintheo...@gmail.com><mailto: > codeintheo...@gmail.com>: > > > > Kafka Users, > > How can I create a kafka topic programatically? > > I would like to create the topics when I initialize my application. It > should also be in such a way that if the topic already exists, the > initialization code should do nothing! > > Thanks and Regards, > Joe > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Tommy Becker > Senior Software Engineer > > Digitalsmiths > A TiVo Company > > www.digitalsmiths.com<http://www.digitalsmiths.com> > tobec...@tivo.com<mailto:tobec...@tivo.com> > > ________________________________ > > This email and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged > material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, copying, > or distribution of this email (or any attachments) by others is prohibited. > If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender > immediately and permanently delete this email and any attachments. No > employee or agent of TiVo Inc. is authorized to conclude any binding > agreement on behalf of TiVo Inc. by email. Binding agreements with TiVo > Inc. may only be made by a signed written agreement. >
