Sorry, typos. "test.a" and "test-a" On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 9:20 PM, Shuai Zhang <shuai....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Team, > > In TopicCommand class, the description for "--topic" parameter is "The > topic to be create, alter or describe. Can also accept a regular expression > except for --create option". > > It means the value of topic parameter will be treated as regex expression > in the logic, so multiple topics may be operated at the same time when > invoking "delete", "alter", "describe" and "list" methods. > > For example, we have two topics on Kafka: "test.a" and "test.a", if I run > describe command "--delete --topic test.a", it will delete both of those > topics. > > Why don't we treat the value user passed as a simple string instead of > regex expression? I would like to know your concern. > > Actually I submitted one PR already: https://github.com/apache/ > kafka/pull/3533, but I closed it after I see the description of "topic" > parameter. > > Thanks! > -- > Shuai Zhang > -- Shuai Zhang
