Jay Kreps created KAFKA-686: ------------------------------- Summary: 0.8 Kafka broker should give a better error message when running against 0.7 zookeeper Key: KAFKA-686 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-686 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Jay Kreps Fix For: 0.8
People will not know that the zookeeper paths are not compatible. When you try to start the 0.8 broker pointed at a 0.7 zookeeper you get a NullPointerException. We should detect this and give a more sane error. Error: kafka.common.KafkaException: Can't parse json string: null at kafka.utils.Json$.liftedTree1$1(Json.scala:20) at kafka.utils.Json$.parseFull(Json.scala:16) at kafka.utils.ZkUtils$$anonfun$getReplicaAssignmentForTopics$2.apply(ZkUtils.scala:498) at kafka.utils.ZkUtils$$anonfun$getReplicaAssignmentForTopics$2.apply(ZkUtils.scala:494) at scala.collection.LinearSeqOptimized$class.foreach(LinearSeqOptimized.scala:61) at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:45) at kafka.utils.ZkUtils$.getReplicaAssignmentForTopics(ZkUtils.scala:494) at kafka.controller.KafkaController.initializeControllerContext(KafkaController.scala:446) at kafka.controller.KafkaController.onControllerFailover(KafkaController.scala:220) at kafka.controller.KafkaController$$anonfun$1.apply$mcV$sp(KafkaController.scala:85) at kafka.server.ZookeeperLeaderElector.elect(ZookeeperLeaderElector.scala:53) at kafka.server.ZookeeperLeaderElector.startup(ZookeeperLeaderElector.scala:43) at kafka.controller.KafkaController.startup(KafkaController.scala:381) at kafka.server.KafkaServer.startup(KafkaServer.scala:90) at kafka.server.KafkaServerStartable.startup(KafkaServerStartable.scala:34) at kafka.Kafka$.main(Kafka.scala:46) at kafka.Kafka.main(Kafka.scala) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at scala.util.parsing.combinator.lexical.Scanners$Scanner.<init>(Scanners.scala:52) at scala.util.parsing.json.JSON$.parseRaw(JSON.scala:71) at scala.util.parsing.json.JSON$.parseFull(JSON.scala:85) at kafka.utils.Json$.liftedTree1$1(Json.scala:17) ... 16 more -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira