How to configure kafka topic retention policy during creation with Spring?

Question

I need to configure retention policy of a particular topic during creation. I tried to look for solution i could only find command level alter command as below

Answer 1

I guess you could use admin client (https://kafka.apache.org/22/javadoc/index.html?org/apache/kafka/clients/admin/AdminClient.html) for this. You can create Admin client instance in your application and use create or alter topic command for manipulating topic configurations, including retention.