Just note that in general doing what Todd advice is pretty risky. We've seen controllers get into all kinds of weird situations when topics were deleted from ZK directly (including getting stuck in an infinite loop, deleting unrelated topics and all kinds of strangeness) - we have no tests for those scenarios so behavior can get really unexpected.
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Hamza HACHANI <hamza.hach...@supcom.tn> wrote: > Thanks Todd, > > > I've resolved it by suing what you told me. > > Thanks very much. But i think that there is a problem with kafka by letting > the saving names of topic and logs where there is a space as i showes in the > images. > > Have a good day to you all. > > > Hamza > > ________________________________ > De : Hamza HACHANI <hamza.hach...@supcom.tn> > Envoyé : mercredi 5 octobre 2016 19:23:00 > À : users@kafka.apache.org > Objet : RE: difficulty to delete a topic because of its syntax > > > Hi, > > Attached the files showing what i'm talking about. > > > Hamza > > ________________________________ > De : Todd S <t...@borked.ca> > Envoyé : mercredi 5 octobre 2016 07:25:48 > À : users@kafka.apache.org > Objet : Re: difficulty to delete a topic because of its syntax > > You *could* go in to zookeeper and nuke the topic, then delete the files on > disk > > Slightly more risky but it should work > > On Wednesday, 5 October 2016, Manikumar <manikumar.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Kafka doesn't support white spaces in topic names. Only support '.', '_' >> and '-' these are allowed. >> Not sure how you got white space in topic name. >> >> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Hamza HACHANI <hamza.hach...@supcom.tn >> <javascript:;>> >> wrote: >> >> > Well ackwardly when i list the topics i find it but when i do delete it >> it >> > says that this topic does not exist. >> > >> > ________________________________ >> > De : Ben Davison <ben.davi...@7digital.com <javascript:;>> >> > Envoyé : mercredi 5 octobre 2016 02:37:14 >> > À : users@kafka.apache.org <javascript:;> >> > Objet : Re: difficulty to delete a topic because of its syntax >> > >> > Try putting "" or '' around the string when running the command. >> > >> > On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Hamza HACHANI <hamza.hach...@supcom.tn >> <javascript:;>> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > It's between "the" and "metric" >> > > >> > > ________________________________ >> > > De : Ali Akhtar <ali.rac...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> >> > > Envoyé : mercredi 5 octobre 2016 02:16:33 >> > > À : users@kafka.apache.org <javascript:;> >> > > Objet : Re: difficulty to delete a topic because of its syntax >> > > >> > > I don't see a space in that topic name >> > > >> > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Hamza HACHANI <hamza.hach...@supcom.tn >> <javascript:;>> >> > > wrote: >> > > >> > > > Hi, >> > > > >> > > > I created a topic called device-connection-invert-key-value-the >> > > > metric-changelog. >> > > > >> > > > I insit that there is a space in it. >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > Now that i want to delete it because my cluster can no longer work >> > > > correctly i can't do it as it only reads the first part of it : ( >> > > > device-connection-invert-key-value-the) which obviously it doesn't >> > find. >> > > > >> > > > Does some body have a wolution to delete it ? >> > > > >> > > > Thanks in advance. >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > Hamza >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> > -- >> > >> > >> > This email, including attachments, is private and confidential. If you >> have >> > received this email in error please notify the sender and delete it from >> > your system. Emails are not secure and may contain viruses. No liability >> > can be accepted for viruses that might be transferred by this email or >> any >> > attachment. Any unauthorised copying of this message or unauthorised >> > distribution and publication of the information contained herein are >> > prohibited. >> > >> > 7digital Limited. Registered office: 69 Wilson Street, London EC2A 2BB. >> > Registered in England and Wales. Registered No. 04843573. >> > >> -- Gwen Shapira Product Manager | Confluent 650.450.2760 | @gwenshap Follow us: Twitter | blog
