GitHub user adyach opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4000
KAFKA-5445: Document exceptions thrown by AdminClient methods Exceptions are processed internally in KafkaAdminClient without throwing them to the client code, hence the documentation of the exception is done in unusual way. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/adyach/kafka KAFKA-5445 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/4000.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 #4000 ---- commit 5dfc375469608cbe997e40377c08c0489a12c1f0 Author: Andrey Dyachkov <andrey.dyach...@zalando.de> Date: 2017-09-28T16:04:31Z kafka-5445: create topic exception description commit 29c626bc75b1e981dae0b82061941d6c252d5760 Author: Andrey Dyachkov <andrey.dyach...@zalando.de> Date: 2017-10-02T12:45:20Z kafka-5445: rest of the commands descritpion ---- ---