How to get topic list from kafka server in Java

Question

I am using kafka 0.8 version and very much new to it.

I want to know the list of topics created in kafka server along with it\'s metadata.

Answer 1

with Kafka 0.9.0

you can list the topics in the server with the provided consumer method listTopics();

eg.

Map > topics;

Properties props = new Properties();
props.put("bootstrap.servers", "1.2.3.4:9092");
props.put("group.id", "test-consumer-group");
props.put("key.deserializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer");
props.put("value.deserializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer");

KafkaConsumer consumer = new KafkaConsumer(props);
topics = consumer.listTopics();
consumer.close();