Re: Improving tools: --help

2017-06-16 Thread Tom Bentley
> I just checked kafka-topics.sh and the only required argument there is > --zookeeper option. Not sure if you were thinking of some other command. > > I meant that for kafka-topics.sh --create requires --topic (amongst others), but --list does not. (For example, using these methods we can say som

Re: Improving tools: --help

2017-06-16 Thread Mariam John
king on it. Hope this helps. Regards, Mariam. From: Tom Bentley To: dev@kafka.apache.org Date: 06/16/2017 10:32 AM Subject:Re: Improving tools: --help That's a great start Mariam, thanks. Out of interest, how do you handle required arguments for something like kafka-t

Re: Improving tools: --help

2017-06-16 Thread Tom Bentley
2017 08:06:11 > AM---Hi, I noticed that the command line tools could use a little]Tom > Bentley ---06/16/2017 08:06:11 AM---Hi, I noticed that the command line > tools could use a little love. For > > From: Tom Bentley > To: dev@kafka.apache.org > Date: 06/16/2017 08:06 AM >

Re: Improving tools: --help

2017-06-16 Thread Mariam John
. So I think I will cover 1) from your list below and not 2) and 3). Thanks Tom. Regards, Mariam. From: Tom Bentley To: dev@kafka.apache.org Date: 06/16/2017 08:06 AM Subject:Improving tools: --help Hi, I noticed that the command line tools could use a little love. For

Improving tools: --help

2017-06-16 Thread Tom Bentley
Hi, I noticed that the command line tools could use a little love. For instance, I was surprised that most of them don't support `--help`, and generally there are a few inconsistencies. KIP-14 is dormant and AFAICS no one is working on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2111 either. So i