[KAFKA-2030] Creating a topic cause Unsupported major.minor version 52.0

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Invalid
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.2.0
• Component/s: admin
• Environment: OS X 10.9.5, scala 2.11.6, zookeeper 3.4.6_1, java 1.7.0_55
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jeff Fogarty
• Created: 18/Mar/15 23:04
• Updated: 19/Mar/15 00:27
• Resolved: 19/Mar/15 00:27

Description

I installed Kafka via brew.
I attempt the following;
kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --create --topic zerg.hydra --partitions 3 --replication-factor 2
and get
Error while executing topic command org/apache/kafka/common/protocol/types/Schema : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/apache/kafka/common/protocol/types/Schema : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
at kafka.server.OffsetManager$.<init>(OffsetManager.scala:357)
at kafka.server.OffsetManager$.<clinit>(OffsetManager.scala)
at kafka.common.Topic$.<init>(Topic.scala:29)
at kafka.common.Topic$.<clinit>(Topic.scala)
at kafka.admin.AdminUtils$.createOrUpdateTopicPartitionAssignmentPathInZK(AdminUtils.scala:181)
at kafka.admin.AdminUtils$.createTopic(AdminUtils.scala:172)
at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.createTopic(TopicCommand.scala:93)
at kafka.admin.TopicCommand$.main(TopicCommand.scala:55)
at kafka.admin.TopicCommand.main(TopicCommand.scala)