Hi Victoria, I’ve used the AdminClient for this kind of thing before. It’s the official java client for administrative actions like creating topics. You can create topics with any partition count, replication, or any other config.
I hope this helps, John On Sat, Feb 15, 2020, at 22:41, Victoria Zuberman wrote: > Hi, > > I have an application based on Kafka Streams. > It reads from Kafka topic (I call this topic “input topic”). > That topic has many partitions and their number varies based on the env > in which application is running. > I don’t want to create different input topics manually. > Configuration of auto.create.topics.enable and num.partitions is not > enough for me. > The solution I am looking to implement is to check during application > init whether the input topic exists and if not to create it with > relevant partition number and replication factor. > > I found the following example that uses kafka.admin.AdminUtils and it > seems to be suitable: > https://www.codota.com/code/java/methods/kafka.admin.AdminUtils/createTopic > > Please advise whether using AdminUtils is considered a good practice. > Is AdminUtils functionality considered stable and reliable? > If there are other solutions, I would appreciate to hear about them. > > Thanks, > Victoria > > ------------------------------------------- > NOTICE: > This email and all attachments are confidential, may be proprietary, > and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. They are > intended solely for the individual or entity to whom the email is > addressed. However, mistakes sometimes happen in addressing emails. If > you believe that you are not an intended recipient, please stop reading > immediately. Do not copy, forward, or rely on the contents in any way. > Notify the sender and/or Imperva, Inc. by telephone at +1 (650) > 832-6006 and then delete or destroy any copy of this email and its > attachments. The sender reserves and asserts all rights to > confidentiality, as well as any privileges that may apply. Any > disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken or omitted to be > taken by an unintended recipient in reliance on this message is > prohibited and may be unlawful. > Please consider the environment before printing this email. >
