# feat: Improve fluvio topic describe with additional information #3968

[gmkumar2005]

• Displays both topic metadata and its partitions in a single command
• Includes a --system flag to optionally show system partitions

[gmkumar2005]

How to filter topics in admin api ? The following call get list of topics how ever it is not able to get filtered list

let topics = admin
           .list_with_config::<TopicSpec, String>(ListRequest::default().system(self.system))
           .await?;

Code with name filter

let list_filters = ListFilters::from(topic.as_str());
     let partitions = admin
         .list_with_config::<PartitionSpec, String>(ListRequest::new(list_filters, self.system).system(self.system))
         .await?;

The value list_filters does not have any effect, the admin returns all the topics.
I had to do additional filtering as below

 let filtered_partitions = partitions.clone()
            .into_iter()
            .filter(|partition| {
                if let Some(index) = partition.name.rfind('-') {
                    let base_name = &partition.name[..index];
                    base_name == topic
                } else {
                    partition.name == topic
                }
            })
            .collect::<Vec<_>>();

Please advice if there is a better approach ?

[gmkumar2005]

Sample output

fluvio topic describe hello-rust
   Name:hello-rust              
   Type:computed                
   Partition Count:1            
   Replication Factor:1         
   Ignore Rack Assignment:false 
   Status:provisioned           
   Reason:                      
   -----------------            
  TOPIC       PARTITION  LEADER  MIRROR  REPLICAS  RESOLUTION  SIZE   BASE  HW  LEO  LRS  FOLLOWER OFFSETS     
  hello-rust  0          5001            []        Online      201 B  0     2   2    2    0                 [] 

Sample output of system topic

fluvio topic describe consumer-offset -s
   Name:consumer-offset         
   Type:computed                
   Partition Count:1            
   Replication Factor:1         
   Ignore Rack Assignment:false 
   Status:provisioned           
   Reason:                      
   -----------------            
  TOPIC            PARTITION  LEADER  MIRROR  REPLICAS  RESOLUTION  SIZE  BASE  HW  LEO  LRS  FOLLOWER OFFSETS     
  consumer-offset  0          5001            []        Online      0 B   0     0   0    0    0                 [] 

[sehz]

Looks like SC partition doesn't properly filter on topic name: https://github.com/infinyon/fluvio/blob/master/crates/fluvio-sc/src/services/public_api/partition/mod.rs.

It'e straightforward to add them like: https://github.com/infinyon/fluvio/blob/master/crates/fluvio-sc/src/services/public_api/topic/fetch.rs

[gmkumar2005]

@sehz Fixing the code in public_api for partitions requires some more analysis, I ran into type related issues.
Can we consider public_api changes in a seperate issue and proceed to close this issue with CLI?

[sehz]

Sounds good

[sehz]

For CLI, need to add CLI E2E test, You can find them here: https://github.com/infinyon/fluvio/tree/master/tests/cli/fluvio_smoke_tests

[gmkumar2005]

For CLI, need to add CLI E2E test, You can find them here: https://github.com/infinyon/fluvio/tree/master/tests/cli/fluvio_smoke_tests

Added smoke test Describe a topic

[gmkumar2005]

Followup PR for updating the docs

infinyon/fluvio-docs#397