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Gwen Shapira updated KAFKA-2416:
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Labels: newbie (was: )
> misleading kafka-console-consumer.sh --property option
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> Key: KAFKA-2416
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2416
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Onur Karaman
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: newbie
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> So I ran into this a long time ago and only just now remembered to document
> it:
> kafka-console-consumer.sh takes a --property option, but this option is just
> an argument for the message formatter. I've had ~10 users ask why --property
> wasn't properly applying their consumer configuration key-value pairs. The
> tool doesn't provide a description for --property, either. I know in the
> past, the user was able to provide all consumer configurations from the
> command line instead of from a file, so it's pretty understandable why the
> mistake would be made.
> Some solutions are:
> 1. just add a description to --property to the existing tool. It's not ideal
> because the "property" name is still there, but it seems unlikely to break
> existing users.
> 2. fix the existing kafka-console-consumer option name. This breaks existing
> users so probably not okay.
> 3. make KAFKA-2015 actually a brand new console consumer with a more accurate
> option name like --formatter-arg or --formatter-args. This won't break
> existing users.
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