So far, I have been unable to get delete topic to work, with release candidate 2 for 0.8.2.
It worked ok when I ran it in the debugger locally, on a single node instance. But when I run it in our staging environment, it is not successfully even marking the topic for delete, for some reason. I am setting delete.topic.enable to true (and see the confirmation of this in the startup logs, e.g.): INFO [main] utils.VerifiableProperties - Property delete.topic.enable is overridden to true I run this command: java -cp app.jar kafka.admin.TopicCommand --zookeeper myzkconnect:12345/mynamespace --delete --topic mytopic log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkConnection). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkEventThread). log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info. log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info. Topic mytopic is marked for deletion. Note: This will have no impact if delete.topic.enable is not set to true. I then do a —list which should at least show the topic marked for deletion: java -cp app.jar kafka.admin.TopicCommand --zookeeper myzkconnect:12345/mynamespace --list --topic mytopic log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkConnection). log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkEventThread). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info. log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info. mytopic Note, it doesn’t list it as ‘marked for deletion’. Furthermore, waiting multiple hours still doesn’t result in the topic being deleted. The topic has 1 partition, 2 replicas, and no data stored. In zookeeper, the /admin/deleted_topics/ path is empty. The zookeeper code looks pretty straightforward, but for some reason is not writing the deleted_topics path. We are running zookeeper 3.4.6. Thoughts? Jason
