chris snow created FLINK-8497: --------------------------------- Summary: KafkaConsumer throws NPE if topic doesn't exist Key: FLINK-8497 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8497 Project: Flink Issue Type: Bug Components: Kafka Connector Affects Versions: 1.4.0 Reporter: chris snow
If I accidentally set the kafka consumer with a topic that doesn't exist: {code:java} FlinkKafkaConsumer011 kafkaConsumer = new FlinkKafkaConsumer011( "does_not_exist", new JSONKeyValueDeserializationSchema(false), properties ); DataStream<String> input = env.addSource(kafkaConsumer);{code} Flink throws NPE {code:java} Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internal.Kafka09PartitionDiscoverer.getAllPartitionsForTopics(Kafka09PartitionDiscoverer.java:75) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internals.AbstractPartitionDiscoverer.discoverPartitions(AbstractPartitionDiscoverer.java:128) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.open(FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.java:415) at org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.util.FunctionUtils.openFunction(FunctionUtils.java:36) at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.AbstractUdfStreamOperator.open(AbstractUdfStreamOperator.java:102) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.openAllOperators(StreamTask.java:393) at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:254) at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:718) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748){code} Maybe Flink could through an IllegalStateException("Topic not found")? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)