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Discussion thread: here [Change the link from the KIP proposal email archive to your own email thread]

JIRA: here [Change the link from KAFKA-1 to your own ticket]8454

Please keep the discussion on the mailing list rather than commenting on the wiki (wiki discussions get unwieldy fast).

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An AdminClient interface has several advantages over an abstract base class, most notably allowing multi-inheritance and the use of dynamic proxies. The current use of an abstract base class imposes unnecessary restrictions on client code making use of the AdminClient and other libraries which accept the AdminClient. 

As an example, a project could make use of a dynamic proxy on an AdminClient interface to ensure downstream code only called read-only methods on the client.

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