Hi Zakee, this is 0.10.2.0. Thanks for heads up on that issue.

-----Original Message-----
From: Zakee [mailto:kzak...@netzero.net] 
Sent: 06 April 2017 19:28
To: users@kafka.apache.org
Subject: Re: Topic deletion

What version of kafka you are on? There are issues with delete topic until I 
guess kafka 0.10.1.0

You may be hitting this issue… https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2231 
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2231>


Thanks
Zakee



> On Apr 6, 2017, at 11:20 AM, Adrian McCague <adrian.mcca...@zopa.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Sachin,
> 
> I am told with confidence that the setting is present in server.properties (I 
> do not have access to the server).
> 
> I have used delete before without issue, and attempted to use it when the 
> setting is false and the behaviour is different. I'm certain that running the 
> command multiple times always shows the warning, that without the setting 
> being true, the command has no effect. In this case it confirms that the 
> topic is marked for deletion.
> 
> Thanks
> Adrian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sachin Mittal [mailto:sjmit...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 06 April 2017 19:05
> To: users@kafka.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Topic deletion
> 
> Do you have delete.topic.enable=true uncommented or present in 
> server.properties
> 
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 11:03 PM, Adrian McCague 
> <adrian.mcca...@zopa.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am trying to understand topic deletion in kafka, there appears to 
>> be very little documentation or answers on how this works. Typically 
>> they just say to turn on the feature on the broker (in my case it is).
>> 
>> I executed:
>> Kafka-topics.bat -delete -zookeeper keeperhere -topic mytopic
>> 
>> Running this again yields:
>> Topic mytopic is already marked for deletion.
>> 
>> --describe yields:
>> Topic: mytopic  PartitionCount:6        ReplicationFactor:3     Configs:
>> retention.ms=0
>>        Topic: mytopic  Partition: 0    Leader: -1      Replicas:
>> 1006,1001,1005        Isr:
>>        Topic  mytopic  Partition: 1    Leader: -1      Replicas:
>> 1001,1005,1003        Isr:
>>       Topic: mytopic  Partition: 2    Leader: -1      Replicas:
>> 1005,1003,1004        Isr:
>>        Topic: mytopic  Partition: 3    Leader: -1      Replicas:
>> 1003,1004,1007        Isr:
>>        Topic: mytopic  Partition: 4    Leader: -1      Replicas:
>> 1004,1007,1006        Isr:
>>        Topic: mytopic  Partition: 5    Leader: -1      Replicas:
>> 1007,1006,1001        Isr:
>> 
>> You can see that the deletion mark has meant that the Leader is -1.
>> Also I read somewhere that retention needs to be set to something low 
>> to trigger the deletion, hence the config of retention.ms=0
>> 
>> Consumers (or streams in my case) no longer see the topic:
>> org.apache.kafka.streams.errors.TopologyBuilderException: Invalid 
>> topology building: stream-thread [StreamThread-1] Topic not found:
>> mytopic
>> 
>> And I can't create a new topic in its place:
>> [2017-04-06 18:26:00,702] ERROR 
>> org.apache.kafka.common.errors.TopicExistsException:
>> Topic 'mytopic' already exists. (kafka.admin.TopicCommand$)
>> 
>> I am a little lost as to where to go next, could someone explain how 
>> topic deletion is actually applied when a topic is 'marked' for 
>> deletion as that may help trigger it.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Adrian
>> 
>> 


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