Tool: get_topic
Get the details of an existing Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka topic.
The following sample demonstrate how to use curl
to invoke the get_topic
MCP tool.
| Curl Request |
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curl --location 'https://managedkafka.googleapis.com/mcp' \ --header 'content-type: application/json' \ --header 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \ --data '{ "method": "tools/call", "params": { "name": "get_topic", "arguments": { // provide these details according to the tool' s MCP specification } } , "jsonrpc" : "2.0" , "id" : 1 } ' |
Input Schema
Request message for GetTopic.
GetTopicRequest
| JSON representation |
|---|
{ "name" : string } |
| Fields | |
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name
|
Required. The name of the topic to retrieve. Format: projects/{project}/locations/{location}/clusters/{cluster_id}/topics/{topic_id} |
Output Schema
A Kafka topic in a given cluster.
Topic
| JSON representation |
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{ "name" : string , "partitionCount" : integer , "replicationFactor" : integer , "configs" : { string : string , ... } } |
| Fields | |
|---|---|
name
|
Identifier. The name of the topic. The |
partitionCount
|
Required. The number of partitions this topic has. The partition count can only be increased, not decreased. Please note that if partitions are increased for a topic that has a key, the partitioning logic or the ordering of the messages will be affected. |
replicationFactor
|
Required. Immutable. The number of replicas of each partition. A replication factor of 3 is recommended for high availability. |
configs
|
Optional. Configurations for the topic that are overridden from the cluster defaults. The key of the map is a Kafka topic property name, for example: An object containing a list of |
ConfigsEntry
| JSON representation |
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{ "key" : string , "value" : string } |
| Fields | |
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key
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value
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Tool Annotations
Destructive Hint: ❌ | Idempotent Hint: ✅ | Read Only Hint: ✅ | Open World Hint: ❌

