Hi Jayesh, Like Gwen said KIP-4 is adding fields and requests to the wire protocols in order to allow all admin tools to talk directly to Kafka and a client api to support those requests. Talking to Kafka as opposed to Zookeeper allows us to leverage authorization, lock down zookeeper, and improve compatibility. Like Gwen said waiting until some of the KIP-4 work is done may avoid rework. I can't make a commitment to how fast the client will be available as it depends on many factors but progress is being made regularly and I do have some mock client work done locally.
It looks like the only thing in your proposal that can not be supported via the wire protocol today is the endpoints metadata. It's sort of a catch-22 because the bootstrap is required to connect to a Kafka cluster (as opposed to zookeeper) and at that point the Metadata returned assumes an endpoint of the connecting security protocol. Is that an acceptable limitation? Thanks, Grant On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Gwen Shapira <g...@confluent.io> wrote: > Thanks Jayesh. > > I think this can be a useful addition to Apache Kafka. > One potential issue is that you are getting all the information for > ZooKeeper. We already added a protocol that allows adding the > information to Kafka itself and are in the process of adding an admin > client (i.e. Java client, not CLI). > If you add this as planned, we'll need to re-work it to work with > Kafka directly instead of ZooKeeper once the admin client lands. If > you choose, you can wait for the admin client to arrive first, and > avoid the re-work. > > Gwen > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Jayesh Thakrar > <j_thak...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > > All, > > If there is no discussion, feedback or objection, is there any concern > in going to the next step of voting? > > Thanks,Jayesh > > From: Jayesh Thakrar <j_thak...@yahoo.com> > > To: "dev@kafka.apache.org" <dev@kafka.apache.org> > > Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2016 11:44 PM > > Subject: [DISCUSS] KIP-59 - Proposal for a kafka broker command - > kafka-brokers.sh > > > > This is to start off a discussion on the above KIP at > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP- > 59%3A+Proposal+for+a+kafka+broker+commandThe proposal is to fill the void > of a command line tool/utility that can provide information on the brokers > in a Kafka cluster. > > The code is available on GitHub at https://github.com/JThakrar/kafkaThe > KIP page has the help documentation as well as the output from the command > with various options.Thank you,Jayesh Thakrar > > > > > > > > > > -- > Gwen Shapira > Product Manager | Confluent > 650.450.2760 | @gwenshap > Follow us: Twitter | blog > -- Grant Henke Software Engineer | Cloudera gr...@cloudera.com | twitter.com/gchenke | linkedin.com/in/granthenke
