Create Topic API

[corybill]

This is a question more about kafka-rest-proxy, than this node module itself.

I don't think there is a create topics API right now. Is there any plans to change that? What suggestions to you have for programmatically creating a topic from node if there isn't a create topic API? Thanks for your help!

Cory Parrish

[ewencp]

It needs to be exposed by the REST proxy first, which doesn't currently support this. But yes, we would like to get that included.

As of today, there isn't a great way of doing this from non-Java languages. There is work in progress to expose this via requests to brokers (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-4+-+Command+line+and+centralized+administrative+operations) but the implementation is still in progress. Today you'd have to shell out to a java subprocess to run the TopicCommand that ships with Kafka.

[chasevida]

Not all the up with Kafka and the work stream but it looks like this may have been implemented in the 0.10.1.0 release? Does it need to be added to kafka-rest-proxy before it can be exposed here?