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Ishita Mandhan commented on KAFKA-2857:
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So it seems like we need to check if the offsets topic exists or not and we can
do this check right before a call to findCoordinator() is made in the
describeGroup function() here -
https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/404b696bea58aca17fbe528aed03cb3c94516c39/core/src/main/scala/kafka/admin/AdminClient.scala#L125.
If the offsets topic doesn’t exist, we can throw an exception and this is the
only check we need to do to resolve the jira based on what I understand. Does
this seem like the right approach to take?
> ConsumerGroupCommand throws GroupCoordinatorNotAvailableException when
> describing a non-existent group before the offset topic is created
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>
> Key: KAFKA-2857
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2857
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: tools
> Reporter: Ismael Juma
> Assignee: Ishita Mandhan
> Priority: Minor
>
> If we describe a non-existing group before the offset topic is created, like
> the following:
> {code}
> bin/kafka-consumer-groups.sh --bootstrap-server localhost:9092 --new-consumer
> --describe --group gggg
> {code}
> We get the following error:
> {code}
> Error while executing consumer group command The group coordinator is not
> available.
> org.apache.kafka.common.errors.GroupCoordinatorNotAvailableException: The
> group coordinator is not available.
> {code}
> The exception is thrown in the `adminClient.describeConsumerGroup` call. We
> can't interpret this exception as meaning that the group doesn't exist
> because it could also be thrown f all replicas for a offset topic partition
> are down (as explained by Jun).
> Jun also suggested that we should distinguish if a coordinator is not
> available from the case where a coordinator doesn't exist.
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