> Regarding adding the possibility to alter the topic config through the > AlterTopic API, the current TopicCommand implementation provides a warning > on doing this suggesting to use the ConfigCommand tool. So it would be a > step back allowing to do the configs change with the alter topic as well. >
To be clear, I'm not proposing that this be supported via the kafka-reassign-partitions.sh tool, nor via kafka-topics.sh. It's purely a question of whether the API for the AlterTopicsRequest/Response and the AdminClient API would support it. As I said, I really don't like the duplication of functionality and would prefer to leave it out, even though it makes for a less "symmetric" API wrt CreateTopicsRequest/Response, but maybe the community feels otherwise.
