Delete topic in Kafka 0.8.1.1

Question

I need to delete the topic test in Apache Kafka 0.8.1.1.

As expressed in the documentation here, I have executed:

bin/kafka-topics.sh --         


        

Answer 1

This steps will delete all topics and data

• Stop Kafka-server and Zookeeper-server
• Remove the tmp data directories of both services, by default they are C:/tmp/kafka-logs and C:/tmp/zookeeper.
• then start Zookeeper-server and Kafka-server

Answer 2

The command:

bin/kafka-topics.sh --delete --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic test

unfortunately only marks topic for deletion.

Deletion does not happen.

That makes troubles, while testing any scripts, which prepares Kafka configuration.

Connected threads:

• Purge Kafka Queue
• Is there a way to delete all the data from a topic or delete the topic before every run?