change the order of your commands
*bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test*
On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Kishore N C <kishor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a 3-node Kafka cluster. I'm running into the following error when I
> try to use the console producer to write to a topic that does *not* yet
> exist. I have ensured that "auto.create.topics.enable=true" in
> server.properties.
>
> The error:
>
> ubuntu@ip-XX-X-XXX-XX:/usr/local/kafka$ bin/kafka-console-producer.sh
> --topic sampletopic --broker-list localhost:9082
> [2015-11-03 12:00:01,011] WARN Property topic is not valid
> (kafka.utils.VerifiableProperties)
> Hey
> [2015-11-03 12:00:04,304] WARN Error while fetching metadata
> [{TopicMetadata for topic sampletopic ->
> No partition metadata for topic sampletopic due to
> kafka.common.UnknownTopicOrPartitionException}] for topic [sampletopic]:
> class kafka.common.UnknownTopicOrPartitionException
> (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo)
> [2015-11-03 12:00:04,312] WARN Error while fetching metadata
> [{TopicMetadata for topic sampletopic ->
> No partition metadata for topic sampletopic due to
> kafka.common.UnknownTopicOrPartitionException}] for topic [sampletopic]:
> class kafka.common.UnknownTopicOrPartitionException
> (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo)
> [2015-11-03 12:00:04,313] ERROR Failed to collate messages by topic,
> partition due to: Failed to fetch topic metadata for topic: sampletopic
> (kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler)
> ...
>
> Once I create the topic, I am able to write to it:
>
> ubuntu@ip-XX-X-XXX-XX:/usr/local/kafka$ bin/kafka-topics.sh --create
> --zookeeper localhost:2181 --replication-factor 2 --partitions 2 --topic
> sampletopic
> Created topic "sampletopic".
> ubuntu@ip-10-1-100-75:/usr/local/kafka$ bin/kafka-console-producer.sh
> --topic sampletopic --broker-list localhost:9082
> [2015-11-03 12:09:01,940] WARN Property topic is not valid
> (kafka.utils.VerifiableProperties)
> Hey
> Hello
> ^Cubuntu@ip-10-1-100-75:/usr/local/kafka$ bin/kafka-console-consumer.sh
> --zookeeper localhost:2181 --from-beginning --topic sampletopic
> Hey
> Hello
> ^CConsumed 2 messages
>
> Any idea what I am doing wrong or how I should troubleshoot this issue?
>
> Regards,
>
> KN.
>
