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Daniel Compton updated KAFKA-1517: ---------------------------------- Status: Patch Available (was: Open) >From 3cb6dd13ab487b72ff73f375617a372360418708 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Compton <d...@danielcompton.net> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:10:19 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] KAFKA-1517; Make messages a required argument --- core/src/main/scala/kafka/tools/PerfConfig.scala | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/kafka/tools/PerfConfig.scala b/core/src/main/scala/kafka/tools/PerfConfig.scala index 129cc01..517a2cd 100644 --- a/core/src/main/scala/kafka/tools/PerfConfig.scala +++ b/core/src/main/scala/kafka/tools/PerfConfig.scala @@ -22,11 +22,10 @@ import joptsimple.OptionParser class PerfConfig(args: Array[String]) { val parser = new OptionParser - val numMessagesOpt = parser.accepts("messages", "The number of messages to send or consume") + val numMessagesOpt = parser.accepts("messages", "REQUIRED: The number of messages to send or consume") .withRequiredArg .describedAs("count") .ofType(classOf[java.lang.Long]) - .defaultsTo(Long.MaxValue) val reportingIntervalOpt = parser.accepts("reporting-interval", "Interval at which to print progress info.") .withRequiredArg .describedAs("size") -- 1.9.2 > Messages is a required argument to Producer Performance Test > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: KAFKA-1517 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1517 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.8.1.1 > Reporter: Daniel Compton > Priority: Trivial > Labels: newbie > > When running the producer performance test without providing a messages > argument, you get an error: > {noformat} > $bin/kafka-producer-perf-test.sh --topics mirrormirror --broker-list > kafka-dc21:9092 > Missing required argument "[messages]" > Option Description > ------ ----------- > ...... > --messages <Long: count> The number of messages to send or > consume (default: > 9223372036854775807) > {noformat} > However the [shell command > documentation|https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/c66e408b244de52f1c5c5bbd7627aa1f028f9a87/perf/src/main/scala/kafka/perf/PerfConfig.scala#L25] > doesn't say that this is required and implies that > [2^63-1|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9223372036854775807] (Long.MaxValue) > messages will be sent. It should probably look like the > [ConsoleProducer|https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/c66e408b244de52f1c5c5bbd7627aa1f028f9a87/core/src/main/scala/kafka/producer/ConsoleProducer.scala#L32] > and prefix the documentation with REQUIRED. Or should we make this a > non-required argument and set the default value to something sane like > 100,000 messages. > Which option is preferable for this? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)