I've created a PR for a potential implementation of this: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/8184 if we decide to go ahead with this KIP.
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 12:36 PM Aneel Nazareth <an...@confluent.io> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to discuss adding a new argument to kafka-configs.sh > (ConfigCommand.scala). > > Recently I've been working on some things that require complex > configurations. I've chosen to represent them as JSON strings in my > server.properties. This works well, and I'm able to update the > configurations by editing server.properties and restarting the broker. I've > added the ability to dynamically configure them, and that works well using > the AdminClient. However, when I try to update these configurations using > kafka-configs.sh, I run into a problem. My configurations contain commas, > and kafka-configs.sh tries to break them up into key/value pairs at the > comma boundary. > > I'd like to enable setting these configurations from the command line, so > I'm proposing that we add a new option to kafka-configs.sh that takes a > properties file. > > I've created a KIP for this idea: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-574%3A+CLI+Dynamic+Configuration+with+file+input > And a JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9612 > > I'd appreciate your feedback on the proposal. > > Thanks, > Aneel >
