Re: Unable to delete topic - kafka 0.8.0

2014-06-26 Thread Virendra Pratap Singh
I am 100% sure nothing was running. However I am not sure of consumers. Would that make any difference? I thought producer message write request could only cause kafka to initiate topic creation, not consumer read. Would consumer read request even succeed if the topic metadata is non-existent in zo

Re: Unable to delete topic - kafka 0.8.0

2014-06-26 Thread Virendra Pratap Singh
No producers were active. The only producer in our pipeline is a storm topology and had made it a point that the whole cluster was down and no topology running. What I did was nothing short of doing a fresh kafka cluster setup (barring the fact that I didn¹t wiped the zookeepers as its the same set

Re: Unable to delete topic - kafka 0.8.0

2014-06-26 Thread Neha Narkhede
Firstly, I'm not sure this process of deleting topics completely works, especially in corner cases. Having said that, for #3, you should just be deleting /brokers/topics/. If producers are sending data to the Kafka cluster, it will recreate the topics once the brokers come up. Thanks, Neha On We

Re: Unable to delete topic - kafka 0.8.0

2014-06-26 Thread Guozhang Wang
Hello Virendra, Did you have any producer/consumer clients running during the whole process? Guozhang On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Virendra Pratap Singh < vpsi...@yahoo-inc.com.invalid> wrote: > I am aware of lack of programmatic way of deleting topics in kafka 0.8.0. > So using the sledg