Hi Viktor, Thanks for taking this task! This is a very nice change as it will allow users to use this tool in many Cloud environments where direct zookeeper access is not available.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:34 AM Viktor Somogyi-Vass <viktorsomo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > This is the continuation of the old KIP-375 with the same title: > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/dc71d08de8cd2f082765be22c9f88bc9f8b39bb8e0929a3a4394e9da@%3Cdev.kafka.apache.org%3E > > The problem there was that two KIPs were created around the same time and I > chose to reorganize mine a bit and give it a new number to avoid > duplication. > > The KIP summary here once again: > > I wrote up a relatively simple KIP about improving the Kafka protocol and > the TopicCommand tool to support the new Java based AdminClient and > hopefully to deprecate the Zookeeper side of it. > > I would be happy to receive some opinions about this. In general I think > this would be an important addition as this is one of the few left but > important tools that still uses direct Zookeeper connection. > > Here is the link for the KIP: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-377%3A+TopicCommand+to+use+AdminClient > > Cheers, > Viktor