GitHub user gprabhat90 opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/66
validate configuration while parsing ConfigDef In java client, configDef class's parse() function should return parsed and validated values (if validator is present) but it does not validate the configuration. e.g. i can create a KafkaProducer instance with a negative value for batch.size and then it throws NullPointerException while sending which is hard to debug. This commits fix that You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/gprabhat90/kafka fixConfigValidation Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/66.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #66 ---- commit 71443fe330976e22113a2267e829a136d778410a Author: prabhat <prabha...@directi.com> Date: 2015-05-15T15:13:15Z validate configuration while parsing ConfigDef ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---