Hi all, While working on the AdminClient, we determined that we didn't have a way to efficiently list all the topics in the cluster. I wrote up a KIP to add a ListTopicsRequest to make this more efficient in larger clusters with more brokers and topics. Please take a look at the KIP here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-142%3A+Add+ListTopicsRequest+to+efficiently+list+all+the+topics+in+a+cluster cheers, Colin