Hi Paolo, That's right, we deprecated those classes as they are mainly used by the old consumer. Sounds good to avoid using them in the TopicCommand written in Java.
Ismael On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Paolo Patierno <ppatie...@live.com> wrote: > I found that the deprecation was added speaking about the KIP-109< > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-109%3A+Old+Consumer+ > Deprecation> which discuss the old consumer deprecation. > > > So the TopicFilter is used in deprecated classes like OldConsumer, > ConsumerConnector and so on but even in the MirrorMaker which isn't > deprecated but still in Scala so it could be part of the process to move > all tools from Scala to Java. > > At same time the new consumer just accept a Pattern in the subscribe and > doesn't use the TopicFilter. > > Even with TopicCommand, the --topic can be a pattern. > > > My understanding is that we can get rid of TopicFilter, Whitelisy and > Blacklist even from the TopicCommand. > > > Paolo Patierno > Senior Software Engineer (IoT) @ Red Hat > Microsoft MVP on Windows Embedded & IoT > Microsoft Azure Advisor > > Twitter : @ppatierno<http://twitter.com/ppatierno> > Linkedin : paolopatierno<http://it.linkedin.com/in/paolopatierno> > Blog : DevExperience<http://paolopatierno.wordpress.com/> > > > ________________________________ > From: Paolo Patierno <ppatie...@live.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 3:53 PM > To: dev@kafka.apache.org > Subject: Reason why TopicFilter and related classes are deprecated > > Hi devs, > > > why the TopicFilter and related Whitelist and Blacklist classes are marked > as deprecated ? > > They are used for filtering on topic with a regex in the ConsoleConsumer, > MirrorMaker, TopicCommand ... > > Do you have a plan for them to be replaced or not, so marking them as > deprecated ? > > Working on rewriting the TopicCommand tool using the Admin Client API this > question came up to my mind. > > > Thanks, > > Paolo > > > Paolo Patierno > Senior Software Engineer (IoT) @ Red Hat > Microsoft MVP on Windows Embedded & IoT > Microsoft Azure Advisor > > Twitter : @ppatierno<http://twitter.com/ppatierno> > Linkedin : paolopatierno<http://it.linkedin.com/in/paolopatierno> > Blog : DevExperience<http://paolopatierno.wordpress.com/> >
