Tirtha Chatterjee created KAFKA-8670: ----------------------------------------
Summary: kafka-topics.sh shows IllegalArgumentException when describing all topics if no topics exist Key: KAFKA-8670 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8670 Project: Kafka Issue Type: Bug Components: admin, tools Affects Versions: 2.2.1, 2.3.0, 2.2.0 Reporter: Tirtha Chatterjee Assignee: Tirtha Chatterjee When trying to describe all the kafka-topics.sh utility, a user would run kafka-topics.sh --describe without passing a --topic option. If there are no topics on the cluster, Kafka returns an error with IllegalArgumentException. {code:java} ./kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper 172.16.7.230:2181,172.16.17.27:2181,172.16.10.89:2181 --describe Error while executing topic command : Topics in [] does not exist [2019-07-07 03:33:15,288] ERROR java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Topics in [] does not exist at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.kafka$admin$TopicCommand$$ensureTopicExists(TopicCommand.scala:416) at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$ZookeeperTopicService.describeTopic(TopicCommand.scala:332) at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.main(TopicCommand.scala:66) at kafka.admin.TopicCommand.main(TopicCommand.scala) (kafka.admin.TopicCommand$) {code} If no --topic option is passed to the command, it should not fail, rather have empty output. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.14#76016)