DeleteTopic makes a node in zookeeper to let controller know that there is a topic up for deletion. This doesn’t immediately delete the topic it can take time depending if all the partitions of that topic are online and brokers are available as well. Once all the Log files deleted zookeeper node gets deleted as well. Also make sure you don’t have any producers or consumers are running while the topic deleting is going on.
-- Harsha On March 23, 2015 at 1:29:50 AM, anthony musyoki (anthony.musy...@gmail.com) wrote: On deleting a topic via TopicCommand.deleteTopic() I get "Topic test-delete is marked for deletion." I follow up by checking if the topic exists by using AdminUtils.topicExists() which suprisingly returns true. I expected AdminUtils.TopicExists() to check both BrokerTopicsPath and DeleteTopicsPath before returning a verdict but it only checks BrokerTopicsPath Shouldn't a topic marked for deletion return false for topicExists() ?
