Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: kafka.admin.TopicCommand

Question

I am trying to create topic in kafka. Here is my command.

.\bin\kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --create --topic myTopic --partitions 1 --replication-factor 1

But I get an exception while create topic caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: kafka.admin.TopicCommand. My kafka version is a 3.3.1 and kafka-topics.sh is located at C:\kafka_2.13-3.3.1\bin path.

Here is my kafka-topics.sh file

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exec $(dirname $0)/kafka-run-class.sh kafka.admin.TopicCommand "$@"

Answer 1

My problem is solved. Instead of run a kafka-topics.sh, I run a kafka-topics.bat file. Which is located at C:\kafka_2.13-3.3.1\bin\windows.

Here is my new command

.\bin\windows\kafka-topics.bat --create --topic myTopic --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1