Joe I think this is great! On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Joe Stein <joe.st...@stealth.ly> wrote:
> Hi, I have been thinking about the ease of use for operations with Kafka. > We have lots of tools doing a lot of different things and they are all kind > of in different places. > > So, what I was thinking is to have a single interface for our tooling > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1694 > > This would manifest itself in two ways 1) a command line interface 2) a > repl > > We would have one entry point centrally for all Kafka commands. > kafka <CMD> <ARGS> > kafka createTopic --brokerList etc, > kafka reassignPartition --brokerList etc, > > or execute and run the shell > > kafka --brokerList localhost > kafka>use topicName; > kafka>set acl='label'; > > I was thinking that all calls would be initialized through --brokerList and > the broker can tell the KafkaCommandTool what server to connect to for > MetaData. > > Thoughts? Tomatoes? > > /******************************************* > Joe Stein > Founder, Principal Consultant > Big Data Open Source Security LLC > http://www.stealth.ly > Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> > ********************************************/ >
