kafka get partition count for a topic

In the 0.82 Producer API and 0.9 Consumer api you can use something like

Properties configProperties = new Properties();
configProperties.put(ProducerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG,"localhost:9092");
configProperties.put(ProducerConfig.KEY_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG,"org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.ByteArraySerializer");
configProperties.put(ProducerConfig.VALUE_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG,"org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer");

org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.Producer producer = new KafkaProducer(configProperties);
producer.partitionsFor("test")

Go to your kafka/bin directory.

Then run this:

./kafka-topics.sh --describe --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic topic_name

You should see what you need under PartitionCount.

Topic:topic_name        PartitionCount:5        ReplicationFactor:1     Configs:
        Topic: topic_name       Partition: 0    Leader: 1001    Replicas: 1001  Isr: 1001
        Topic: topic_name       Partition: 1    Leader: 1001    Replicas: 1001  Isr: 1001
        Topic: topic_name       Partition: 2    Leader: 1001    Replicas: 1001  Isr: 1001
        Topic: topic_name       Partition: 3    Leader: 1001    Replicas: 1001  Isr: 1001
        Topic: topic_name       Partition: 4    Leader: 1001    Replicas: 1001  Isr: 1001

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When using a version where zookeeper is no longer a dependency of Kafka

kafka-topics --describe --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --topic topic_name

In java code we can use AdminClient to get sum partions of one topic.

Properties props = new Properties();
props.put("bootstrap.servers", "host:9092");
AdminClient client = AdminClient.create(props);

DescribeTopicsResult result = client.describeTopics(Arrays.asList("TEST"));
Map<String, KafkaFuture<TopicDescription>>  values = result.values();
KafkaFuture<TopicDescription> topicDescription = values.get("TEST");
int partitions = topicDescription.get().partitions().size();
System.out.println(partitions);

Here's how I do it:

  /**
   * Retrieves list of all partitions IDs of the given {@code topic}.
   * 
   * @param topic
   * @param seedBrokers List of known brokers of a Kafka cluster
   * @return list of partitions or empty list if none found
   */
  public static List<Integer> getPartitionsForTopic(String topic, List<BrokerInfo> seedBrokers) {
    for (BrokerInfo seed : seedBrokers) {
      SimpleConsumer consumer = null;
      try {
        consumer = new SimpleConsumer(seed.getHost(), seed.getPort(), 20000, 128 * 1024, "partitionLookup");
        List<String> topics = Collections.singletonList(topic);
        TopicMetadataRequest req = new TopicMetadataRequest(topics);
        kafka.javaapi.TopicMetadataResponse resp = consumer.send(req);

        List<Integer> partitions = new ArrayList<>();
        // find our partition's metadata
        List<TopicMetadata> metaData = resp.topicsMetadata();
        for (TopicMetadata item : metaData) {
          for (PartitionMetadata part : item.partitionsMetadata()) {
            partitions.add(part.partitionId());
          }
        }
        return partitions;  // leave on first successful broker (every broker has this info)
      } catch (Exception e) {
        // try all available brokers, so just report error and go to next one
        LOG.error("Error communicating with broker [" + seed + "] to find list of partitions for [" + topic + "]. Reason: " + e);
      } finally {
        if (consumer != null)
          consumer.close();
      }
    }
    throw new RuntimeError("Could not get partitions");
  }

Note that I just needed to pull out partition IDs, but you can additionally retrieve any other partition metadata, like leader, isr, replicas, ...
And BrokerInfo is just a simple POJO that has host and port fields.