Description
When using a non-root ZK directory for Kafka, if you specify multiple ZK servers, Kafka does not seem to properly parse the connection string.
Error
[root@hodor-001 bin]# ./kafka-console-consumer.sh --zookeeper baelish-001.edh.cloudera.com:2181/kafka,baelish-002.edh.cloudera.com:2181/kafka,baelish-003.edh.cloudera.com:2181/kafka --topic test-topic [2014-10-01 15:31:04,629] ERROR Error processing message, stopping consumer: (kafka.consumer.ConsoleConsumer$) java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path length must be > 0 at org.apache.zookeeper.common.PathUtils.validatePath(PathUtils.java:48) at org.apache.zookeeper.common.PathUtils.validatePath(PathUtils.java:35) at org.apache.zookeeper.ZooKeeper.create(ZooKeeper.java:766) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkConnection.create(ZkConnection.java:87) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient$1.call(ZkClient.java:308) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient$1.call(ZkClient.java:304) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.retryUntilConnected(ZkClient.java:675) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.create(ZkClient.java:304) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.createPersistent(ZkClient.java:213) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.createPersistent(ZkClient.java:223) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.createPersistent(ZkClient.java:223) at org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient.createPersistent(ZkClient.java:223) at kafka.utils.ZkUtils$.createParentPath(ZkUtils.scala:245) at kafka.utils.ZkUtils$.createEphemeralPath(ZkUtils.scala:256) at kafka.utils.ZkUtils$.createEphemeralPathExpectConflict(ZkUtils.scala:268) at kafka.utils.ZkUtils$.createEphemeralPathExpectConflictHandleZKBug(ZkUtils.scala:306) at kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.kafka$consumer$ZookeeperConsumerConnector$$registerConsumerInZK(ZookeeperConsumerConnector.scala:226) at kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector$WildcardStreamsHandler.<init>(ZookeeperConsumerConnector.scala:755) at kafka.consumer.ZookeeperConsumerConnector.createMessageStreamsByFilter(ZookeeperConsumerConnector.scala:145) at kafka.consumer.ConsoleConsumer$.main(ConsoleConsumer.scala:196) at kafka.consumer.ConsoleConsumer.main(ConsoleConsumer.scala)
Working
[root@hodor-001 bin]# ./kafka-console-consumer.sh --zookeeper baelish-001.edh.cloudera.com:2181/kafka --topic test-topic