在Kafka 0.8.2中测试，作为快速启动的例子: 首先，添加一行到服务器。配置文件夹下的属性文件:

delete.topic.enable=true

然后，执行以下命令:

bin/kafka-topics.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --delete --topic test

然后重新创建它，以便客户端继续对空主题进行操作

虽然公认的答案是正确的，但该方法已被弃用。主题配置现在应该通过kafka-configs来完成。

kafka-configs --zookeeper localhost:2181 --entity-type topics --alter --add-config retention.ms=1000 --entity-name MyTopic

通过该方法设置的配置可以通过命令显示

kafka-configs --zookeeper localhost:2181 --entity-type topics --describe --entity-name MyTopic

从Java，使用新的AdminZkClient代替已弃用的AdminUtils:

  public void reset() {
    try (KafkaZkClient zkClient = KafkaZkClient.apply("localhost:2181", false, 200_000,
        5000, 10, Time.SYSTEM, "metricGroup", "metricType")) {

      for (Map.Entry<String, List<PartitionInfo>> entry : listTopics().entrySet()) {
        deleteTopic(entry.getKey(), zkClient);
      }
    }
  }

  private void deleteTopic(String topic, KafkaZkClient zkClient) {

    // skip Kafka internal topic
    if (topic.startsWith("__")) {
      return;
    }

    System.out.println("Resetting Topic: " + topic);
    AdminZkClient adminZkClient = new AdminZkClient(zkClient);
    adminZkClient.deleteTopic(topic);

    // deletions are not instantaneous
    boolean success = false;
    int maxMs = 5_000;
    while (maxMs > 0 && !success) {
      try {
        maxMs -= 100;
        adminZkClient.createTopic(topic, 1, 1, new Properties(), null);
        success = true;
      } catch (TopicExistsException ignored) {
      }
    }

    if (!success) {
      Assert.fail("failed to create " + topic);
    }
  }

  private Map<String, List<PartitionInfo>> listTopics() {
    Properties props = new Properties();
    props.put("bootstrap.servers", kafkaContainer.getBootstrapServers());
    props.put("group.id", "test-container-consumer-group");
    props.put("key.deserializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer");
    props.put("value.deserializer", "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer");

    KafkaConsumer<String, String> consumer = new KafkaConsumer<>(props);
    Map<String, List<PartitionInfo>> topics = consumer.listTopics();
    consumer.close();

    return topics;
  }

如果你使用confluentinc/cp-kafka容器，下面是删除主题的命令。

docker exec -it <kafka-container-id> kafka-topics --zookeeper zookeeper:2181 --delete --topic <topic-name>

成功的回应:

Topic <topic-name> is marked for deletion.
Note: This will have no impact if delete.topic.enable is not set to true.

您必须在配置中启用此功能

echo "delete.topic.enable=true" >> /opt/kafka/config/server.properties 
sudo systemctl stop kafka 
sudo systemctl start kafka 

清除主题

/opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --delete --topic flows

创建主题

# /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-topics.sh --create --bootstrap-server localhost:2181 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic Test

阅读主题

# /opt/kafka/bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh  localhost:9092 --topic flows --from-beginning

根据@steven appleyard的回答，我在Kafka 2.2.0上执行了以下命令，它们对我有用。

bin/kafka-configs.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --entity-type topics --entity-name <topic-name> --describe

bin/kafka-configs.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --entity-type topics --entity-name <topic-name> --alter --add-config retention.ms=1000

bin/kafka-configs.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --entity-type topics --entity-name <topic-name> --alter --delete-config retention.ms