I'm using 0.8.1.1
I use DeleteTopicCommand to delete topic
args[0] = "--topic";
args[1] = the topic you want to delete
args[2] = "--zookeeper";
args[3] = kafkaZookeepers;
DeleteTopicCommand.main(args);
You can write your own script to delete the topic, I guess. And I think it
only deletes the entry in zookeeper
Best,
Siyuan
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Mark Roberts <wiz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When we were in testing phase, we would either create a new topic with the
> correct details or shut the cluster down and hard kill the topic in
> zookeeper + local disk. In prod we have the cluster configured via
> configuration management and auto create turned off.
>
> The ability to delete a topic in a live, running kafka cluster is tricky,
> and the implementations of it have been subtly incorrect (and therefore
> dangerous). I know that there is work happening around that, but haven't
> kept up with the status of it. Maybe in 8.2? It sounds conceptually
> simpler to implement with the new metadata API.
>
> -Mark
>
> > On Jun 18, 2014, at 4:06, "Shlomi Hazan" <shl...@viber.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Doing some evaluation testing, and accidently create a queue with wrong
> > replication factor.
> >
> > Trying to delete as in:
> >
> > kafka_2.10-0.8.1.1/bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181
> --delete
> > --topic replicated-topic
> >
> > Yeilded:
> >
> > Command must include exactly one action: --list, --describe, --create or
> > -alter
> >
> > Event though this page (https://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html)
> says:
> >
> >
> >
> > And finally deleting a topic:
> >
> >> bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper zk_host:port/chroot --delete --topic
> > my_topic_name
> >
> > WARNING: Delete topic functionality is beta in 0.8.1. Please report any
> bugs
> > that you encounter on the <mailto:%20us...@kafka.apache.org> mailing
> list or
> > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA> JIRA.
> >
> > Kafka does not currently support reducing the number of partitions for a
> > topic or changing the replication factor.
> >
> > What should I do?
> >
> > Shlomi
> >
>
