Hi Jun, A couple of comments inline.
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Jun Rao <j...@confluent.io> wrote: > 1. It seems a bit weird to return just a list of internal topics w/o the > corresponding metadata. It also seems a bit weird to return the internal > topics even if the client doesn't ask for it. Good point. > Would it be better to just > add a flag in topic_metadata to indicate whether it's an internal topic or > not, and only include the internal topics when thy are asked (or all topics > are requested) for? > The disadvantage of this is that we are adding one byte per topic even though we have a very small number of internal topics (currently a single internal topic). It seems a bit wasteful and particularly so when using regex subscriptions (since we have to retrieve all topics in that case). 2. A similar comment on topics_marked_for_deletion. Would it be better to > only return them when asked for and just return a new TopicDeleted error > code in topic_metadata? I agree that this seems better. Ismael