Why is kafka not creating a topic? bootstrap-server is not a recognized option

apache-kafka apache-zookeeper kafka-topic
KayV picture KayV · Apr 3, 2019 · Viewed 12.2k times · Source

I am new to Kafka and trying to create a new topic on my local machine.

I am following this link.

Here are the steps which i followed:

  1. Start zookeeper

    bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties

  2. Start kafka-server

    bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties

  3. Create a topic

    bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test

but when creating the topic, i am getting the following error:

Exception in thread "main" joptsimple.UnrecognizedOptionException: bootstrap-server is not a recognized option
    at joptsimple.OptionException.unrecognizedOption(OptionException.java:108)
    at joptsimple.OptionParser.handleLongOptionToken(OptionParser.java:510)
    at joptsimple.OptionParserState$2.handleArgument(OptionParserState.java:56)
    at joptsimple.OptionParser.parse(OptionParser.java:396)
    at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$TopicCommandOptions.<init>(TopicCommand.scala:358)
    at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.main(TopicCommand.scala:44)
    at kafka.admin.TopicCommand.main(TopicCommand.scala)

Is there any other configuration required to create a topic? What wrong am i doing

Answer

Bartosz Wardziński picture Bartosz Wardziński · Apr 3, 2019

If you use version older than 2.2 you should use --zookeeper option and pass connection string to zookeeper

Command would be something like that:

bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic test

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