Hi Anand, AdminClient is more recommended to get cluster/broker/topic/partition/replication metadata and these apis are under evolving , KafkaProducer is mostly used to produce record and less used to query metadata information.
Ziming > On Jun 10, 2025, at 10:33 PM, Subra I <iamsubra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I need to know the number of partitions for a topic before > producing/consuming. Some users may set the number of partitions for a > given topic but some users may just set the number of partitions in > server.properties. It should work for both cases. > > Which method is better for a production grade software: > > 1. KafkaProducer partitionsFor > 2. KafkaAdminClient describeTopics: you need to extract the topic you are > interested in and get the partition info from the metadata. > > A quick Google search tells me that describeTopics approach is more > comprehensive. > > Also, will the use of KafkaProducer partitionsFor work for clustered > environments? > > Thanks, > Anand
