Adding new util function for topics validations

lib/utils.js

@@ -1,13 +1,34 @@
 var assert = require('assert');
 var InvalidConfigError = require('./errors/InvalidConfigError');
 var legalChars = new RegExp('^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]*$');
+var allowedTopicLength = 249;
 
 function validateConfig (property, value) {
   if (!legalChars.test(value)) {
     throw new InvalidConfigError([property, value, "is illegal, contains a character other than ASCII alphanumerics, '.', '_' and '-'"].join(' '));
   }
 }
 
+function validateCreateTopics (topics) {
+  // Rewriting same validations done by Apache Kafka team for topics
+  // iterating over topics
+  topics.some(function (topic) {
+    if (topic.length <= 0) {
+      throw new InvalidConfigError('topic name is illegal, cannot be empty');
+    }
+    if (topic === '.' || topic === '..') {
+      throw new InvalidConfigError('topic name cannot be . or ..');
+    }
+    if (topic.length > allowedTopicLength) {
+      throw new InvalidConfigError('topic name is illegal, cannot be longer than ' + allowedTopicLength + ' characters');
+    }
+    if (!legalChars.test(topic)) {
+      throw new InvalidConfigError('topic name ' + topic + 'is illegal, contains a character other than ASCII alphanumerics .,_ and -');
+    }
+  });
+  return true;
+}
+
 function validateTopics (topics) {
   if (topics.some(function (topic) {
     if ('partition' in topic) {
@@ -79,5 +100,6 @@ module.exports = {
   validateConfig: validateConfig,
   validateTopics: validateTopics,
   groupPartitionsByTopic: groupPartitionsByTopic,
-  createTopicPartitionList: createTopicPartitionList
+  createTopicPartitionList: createTopicPartitionList,
+  validateCreateTopics: validateCreateTopics
 };