Reset Spring Boot Kafka Stream Application on modifying topics - spring-boot

Question

I'm using a spring-kafka to run Kafka Stream in a Spring Boot application using StreamsBuilderFactoryBean. I changed the number of partitions in some of the topics from 100 to 20 by deleting and recreating them, but now on running the application, I get the following error:
Existing internal topic MyAppId-KSTREAM-AGGREGATE-STATE-STORE-0000000092-changelog has invalid partitions: expected: 20; actual: 100. Use 'kafka.tools.StreamsResetter' tool to clean up invalid topics before processing.
I couldn't access the class kafka.tools.StreamsResetter and tried calling StreamsBuilderFactoryBean.getKafkaStreams.cleanup() but it gave NullPointerException. How do I do the said cleanup?

Answer 1

The relevant documentation is at here.
Step 1: Local Cleanup
For Spring Boot with StreamsBuilderFactoryBean, the first step can be done by simply adding CleanerConfig to the constructor:
// Before
new StreamsBuilderFactoryBean(new KafkaStreamsConfiguration(config));
// After
new StreamsBuilderFactoryBean(new KafkaStreamsConfiguration(config), new CleanupConfig(true, true));
This enables calling the KafkaStreams.cleanUp() method on both before start() & after stop().
Step 2: Global Cleanup
For step two, with all instances of the application stopped, simply use the tool as explained in the documentation:
# In kafka directory
bin/kafka-streams-application-reset.sh --application-id "MyAppId" --bootstrap-servers 1.2.3.4:9092 --input-topics x --intermediate-topics first_x,second_x,third_x --zookeeper 1.2.3.4:2181
What this does:
For any specified input topics: Reset the application’s committed consumer offsets to "beginning of the topic" for all partitions (for consumer group application.id).
For any specified intermediate topics: Skip to the end of the topic, i.e. set the application’s committed consumer offsets for all partitions to each partition’s logSize (for consumer group application.id).
For any internal topics: Delete the internal topic (this will also delete committed the corresponding committed offsets).