In 0.8, the only programmatic way, other than create topic, is to use CreateTopicCommand.createTopic(). This is probably something we can improve in the forthcoming releases.
Thanks, Neha On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:02 PM, hsy...@gmail.com <hsy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi kafka, > > Is there a programmatic way to create topic. > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16946778/how-can-we-create-a-topic-in-kafka-from-the-ide-using-api/18480684#18480684 > is toooooo hacky, plus it's not a sync function. > I'm asking this because I'm writing a test case which will start kafka > server, create topic, produce and consume some message(in separate thread). > But it fails some time because producer start to produce before the topic > is created. The auto topic creation property won't work either because the > consumer may start get TopicMeta data before the topic is created. > Thanks! > > Best, > Siyuan >
