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I developed a POC for an AMQP - Kafka bridge (https://github.com/rhiot/amqp-kafka-bridge) and the straightforward mapping between AMQP "address" to Kafka "topic" isn't valid anymore. In AMQP, the address is a simple string and a lot of systems (i.e. brokers) use "/" as separator for "multi-level" address. The idea in my bridge is now to convert every "/" in "_" but in such way AMQP clients will use "/" and native Kafka clients will use "_". I don't like it so much [☹] Thanks, Paolo. [https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/13518356?v=3&s=400]<https://github.com/rhiot/amqp-kafka-bridge> GitHub - rhiot/amqp-kafka-bridge: AMQP - Apache Kafka bridge<https://github.com/rhiot/amqp-kafka-bridge> github.com README.md AMQP - Apache Kafka bridge. This project provides a software component which acts as a bridge between AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) based clients ... Paolo Patierno Senior Software Engineer (IoT) @ Red Hat Microsoft MVP on Windows Embedded & IoT Microsoft Azure Advisor Twitter : @ppatierno<http://twitter.com/ppatierno> Linkedin : paolopatierno<http://it.linkedin.com/in/paolopatierno> Blog : DevExperience<http://paolopatierno.wordpress.com/> ________________________________ From: Gwen Shapira <g...@confluent.io> Sent: Friday, November 4, 2016 5:14 PM To: Users Subject: Re: Character "/" and "\" not allowed in topic name We use topic names to generate directories on the file system, "/" is not a valid character in directories (or if it is, it still makes things like "ls" more complex), so we decided to simply do without it. On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Paolo Patierno <ppatie...@live.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > > why the "/" character isn't allowed in a topic name ? If I try to use it I > receive an error on creation. > > > If I try to use the "\" character ... no error on creation but this character > is omitted from the name. Why ? > > > I.e. create "this\topic" ... it creates "thistopic" > > > Thanks, > > Paolo. > > > Paolo Patierno > Senior Software Engineer (IoT) @ Red Hat > Microsoft MVP on Windows Embedded & IoT > Microsoft Azure Advisor > > Twitter : @ppatierno<http://twitter.com/ppatierno> > Linkedin : paolopatierno<http://it.linkedin.com/in/paolopatierno> > Blog : DevExperience<http://paolopatierno.wordpress.com/> -- Gwen Shapira Product Manager | Confluent 650.450.2760 | @gwenshap Follow us: Twitter | blog
