How can I get number of partitions for any kafka topic from the code. I have researched many links but none seem to work.
Mentioning a few:
http://grokbase.com/t/kafka/users/148132gdzk/find-topic-partition-count-through-simpleclient-api
http://grokbase.com/t/kafka/users/151cv3htga/get-replication-and-partition-count-of-a-topic
http://qnalist.com/questions/5809219/get-replication-and-partition-count-of-a-topic
which look like similar discussions.
Also there are similar links on SO which do not have a working solution to this.
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")