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Status

Current state:  "Under Discussion"

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Motivation

From JIRA description

Currently the `kafka-acls` command has a `--list` option that can list per resource. In order to look at the ACLs  for a particular principal the user needs to iterate through the entire list to figure out what privileges a particular principal has been granted. An option to list the ACL per principal would simplify this processDescribe the problems you are trying to solve.

Public Interfaces

Briefly list any new interfaces that will be introduced as part of this proposal or any existing interfaces that will be removed or changed. The purpose of this section is to concisely call out the public contract that will come along with this feature.

A public interface is any change to the following:

• Binary log format

• The network protocol and api behavior

• Any class in the public packages under clientsConfiguration, especially client configuration

  • org/apache/kafka/common/serialization

  • org/apache/kafka/common

  • org/apache/kafka/common/errors

  • org/apache/kafka/clients/producer

  • org/apache/kafka/clients/consumer (eventually, once stable)

• Monitoring

• Command line tools and arguments

• Anything else that will likely break existing users in some way when they upgrade

kafka-acls.sh script with "--list" option supports additional optional argument "--principal" with the following specification

    val listPrincipalsOpt = parser.accepts("principal", "List ACLs for the specified principal. principal is in principalType:name format." +
      " Note that principalType must be supported by the Authorizer being used.")
      .withOptionalArg()
      .describedAs("principal")
      .ofType(classOf[String])

Proposed Changes

Describe the new thing you want to do in appropriate detail. This may be fairly extensive and have large subsections of its own. Or it may be a few sentences. Use judgement based on the scope of the change.

Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

• What impact (if any) will there be on existing users?
• If we are changing behavior how will we phase out the older behavior?
• If we need special migration tools, describe them here.
• When will we remove the existing behavior?

Rejected Alternatives

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• There won't be any change of current behavior.