Github user tzulitai commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3036#discussion_r94748197 --- Diff: flink-connectors/flink-connector-kafka-0.9/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/connectors/kafka/FlinkKafkaConsumer09.java --- @@ -208,13 +208,12 @@ public FlinkKafkaConsumer09(List<String> topics, KeyedDeserializationSchema<T> d if (partitionsForTopic != null) { partitions.addAll(convertToFlinkKafkaTopicPartition(partitionsForTopic)); } + else{ + LOG.info("Unable to retrieve any partitions for the requested topic: {}", topic); + } } } - if (partitions.isEmpty()) { - throw new RuntimeException("Unable to retrieve any partitions for the requested topics " + topics); - } --- End diff -- I think we still want to fail if there are no partitions at all for ALL topics, correct? This change here will remove that behaviour.
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