Stanislav Kozlovski created KAFKA-8406: ------------------------------------------
Summary: kafka-topics throws wrong error on invalid configuration with bootstrap-server and alter config Key: KAFKA-8406 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8406 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Stanislav Kozlovski Assignee: Stanislav Kozlovski Running {code:java} ./kafka-topics --bootstrap-server <server> --alter --config retention.ms=3600000 --topic topic{code} Results in {code:java} Missing required argument "[partitions]"{code} Running {code:java} ./kafka-topics --bootstrap-server <server> --alter --config retention.ms=3600000 --topic topic --partitions 25{code} Results in {code:java} Option combination "[bootstrap-server],[config]" can't be used with option "[alter]"{code} For better clarity, we should just throw the last error outright. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)