+1 It would definitely be useful to have a CLI. We had a cursory discussion on this in the past [1] but it would be useful to have a full proposal describing everything the CLI should provide.
[1] http://grokbase.com/t/kafka/dev/1435tr3pfc/command-line-tools On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 05:12:16PM -0700, Todd Palino wrote: > We've been talking about this a little internally as well. What about the > idea of presenting all the admin functions through a web API interface > (restful or not) complete with authentication? That would make it much easier > for creating structure around Kafka without having to layer commands on top > of each other. > > I'm not a big fan of the language specific interfaces, because they tend to > complicate trying to integrate with larger systems. Consider something like > AWS or Azure, where it would be much easier if there is an API interface like > that. > > -Todd > > > On Oct 17, 2014, at 5:03 PM, Joe Stein <joe.st...@stealth.ly> wrote: > > > > Hi, I have been thinking about the ease of use for operations with Kafka. > > We have lots of tools doing a lot of different things and they are all kind > > of in different places. > > > > So, what I was thinking is to have a single interface for our tooling > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1694 > > > > This would manifest itself in two ways 1) a command line interface 2) a repl > > > > We would have one entry point centrally for all Kafka commands. > > kafka <CMD> <ARGS> > > kafka createTopic --brokerList etc, > > kafka reassignPartition --brokerList etc, > > > > or execute and run the shell > > > > kafka --brokerList localhost > > kafka>use topicName; > > kafka>set acl='label'; > > > > I was thinking that all calls would be initialized through --brokerList and > > the broker can tell the KafkaCommandTool what server to connect to for > > MetaData. > > > > Thoughts? Tomatoes? > > > > /******************************************* > > Joe Stein > > Founder, Principal Consultant > > Big Data Open Source Security LLC > > http://www.stealth.ly > > Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> > > ********************************************/
