KIP-117 — Add a public AdminClient API for Kafka admin operations
Accepted Kafka 1.0 Admin
Introduces a stable public `AdminClient` Java API backed by the Kafka binary protocol (not ZooKeeper directly), exposing operations like `createTopics`, `deleteTopics`, `describeTopics`, `listTopics`, and `describeCluster`. Management tools and proxies previously had no stable programmatic API for admin operations and were forced to use internal Scala classes or spawn shell scripts.
Protocol Impact
Details
| Author | Colin McCabe |
| Status | Accepted |
| Kafka Version | 1.0 |
| JIRA | KAFKA-3265 |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2017-02-02 |
| Last Modified | 2017-07-20 |
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