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Andrew Winterman reopened KAFKA-2887:
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Reopening because the auto.create.topics.enable also controls whether or not a
topic is created by attempts to produce to it. It seems like producing is a
write operation, while consuming or asking for metadata is a read. I maintain
that creating topics in response to read operations is surprising.
> TopicMetadataRequest creates topic if it does not exist
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> Key: KAFKA-2887
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2887
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: clients
> Affects Versions: 0.8.2.0
> Environment: Centos6, Java 1.7.0_75
> Reporter: Andrew Winterman
> Priority: Minor
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> We wired up a probe http endpoint to make TopicMetadataRequests with a
> possible topic name. If no topic was found, we expected an empty response.
> However if we asked for the same topic twice, it would exist the second time!
> I think this is a bug because the purpose of the TopicMetadaRequest is to
> provide information about the cluster, not mutate it. I can provide example
> code if needed.
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