Hi, For a non-existent topic, the consumer and producer are set up. Then if the producer sends the first message, producer gets this exception:
[2014-11-12 16:24:28,041] WARN Error while fetching metadata [{TopicMetadata for topic test5 -> No partition metadata for topic test5 due to kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException}] for topic [test5]: class kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo) [2014-11-12 16:24:28,061] WARN Error while fetching metadata [{TopicMetadata for topic test5 -> No partition metadata for topic test5 due to kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException}] for topic [test5]: class kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo) [2014-11-12 16:24:28,062] ERROR Failed to collate messages by topic, partition due to: Failed to fetch topic metadata for topic: test5 (kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler) And the consumer won't get this message. But the second message and later is ok. We don't change server.properties so auto.create.topics.enable should be true. But if we set up consumer with --from-begin flag, such like bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic test5 * --from-begin* the exception is still there but consumer will get the first message. My question is how to avoid the loss. Thanks!