[KAFKA-12329] kafka-reassign-partitions command should give a better error message when a topic does not exist

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Assignee: David Jacot
• Reporter: David Jacot
• Created: 16/Feb/21 16:05
• Updated: 08/Mar/21 14:38
• Resolved: 01/Mar/21 14:00

Description

The `kafka-reassign-partitions` command spits out a generic when the reassignment contains a topic which does not exist:

$ ./bin/kafka-reassign-partitions.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --execute --reassignment-json-file reassignment.json
Error: org.apache.kafka.common.errors.UnknownTopicOrPartitionException: This server does not host this topic-partition.

When the reassignment contains multiple topic-partitions, this is quite annoying. It would be better if it could at least give the concerned topic-partition.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #10141