It depends. If auto.topic.create.enable is true, a topic will be created. If its false, you will get some kind of topic doesn't exist exception.
Gwen On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Shravan Ambati <shravan.amb...@calix.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I could not find answer to this in the documentation. > In Kafka 0.9.X, what happens when the consumer calls consumer.subscribe > for a non existant topic? > > > Thanks > Shravan >