kafka get partition count for a topic

Question

How can I get number of partitions for any kafka topic from the code. I have researched many links but none seem to work.

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Answer 1

Here's how I do it:

  /**
   * Retrieves list of all partitions IDs of the given {@code topic}.
   * 
   * @param topic
   * @param seedBrokers List of known brokers of a Kafka cluster
   * @return list of partitions or empty list if none found
   */
  public static List getPartitionsForTopic(String topic, List seedBrokers) {
    for (BrokerInfo seed : seedBrokers) {
      SimpleConsumer consumer = null;
      try {
        consumer = new SimpleConsumer(seed.getHost(), seed.getPort(), 20000, 128 * 1024, "partitionLookup");
        List topics = Collections.singletonList(topic);
        TopicMetadataRequest req = new TopicMetadataRequest(topics);
        kafka.javaapi.TopicMetadataResponse resp = consumer.send(req);

        List partitions = new ArrayList<>();
        // find our partition's metadata
        List metaData = resp.topicsMetadata();
        for (TopicMetadata item : metaData) {
          for (PartitionMetadata part : item.partitionsMetadata()) {
            partitions.add(part.partitionId());
          }
        }
        return partitions;  // leave on first successful broker (every broker has this info)
      } catch (Exception e) {
        // try all available brokers, so just report error and go to next one
        LOG.error("Error communicating with broker [" + seed + "] to find list of partitions for [" + topic + "]. Reason: " + e);
      } finally {
        if (consumer != null)
          consumer.close();
      }
    }
    throw new RuntimeError("Could not get partitions");
  }

Note that I just needed to pull out partition IDs, but you can additionally retrieve any other partition metadata, like leader, isr, replicas, ...
And BrokerInfo is just a simple POJO that has host and port fields.