[KAFKA-16945] Cleanup StreamsBuilder and TopologyConfig

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: streams
• Labels: needs-kip
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Matthias J. Sax
• Created: 12/Jun/24 23:07
• Updated: 15/Aug/24 13:54

Description

Historically, Kafka Streams offers two ways to build a topology: either via the PAPI by creating a `new Topology()` explicitly, or via the `StreamsBuilder` which returns a topology via `build()` method.

We later added an overload `build(Properties)` to enable topology optimizations for the DSL layer.

Furthermore, we also added `TopologyConfig` object, which can be passed into `new Topology(TopologyConfig)` as well as `StreamsBuilder(TopologyConfig)`.

We should consider to unify the different approaches to simplify the rather complex API we have right now.

Issue Links

• contains: KAFKA-13561 Consider deprecating `StreamsBuilder#build(props)` function