[jira] [Commented] (KAFKA-1124) Sending to a new topic (with auto.create.topics.enable) returns ERROR

["Anuj Mehta (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Anuj Mehta commented on KAFKA-1124:
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Hi

I tried reproducing this issue but I am getting a WARN message instead of an ERROR

[2013-11-13 18:24:59,310] WARN Error while fetching metadata [{TopicMetadata for topic newTopic -> 
No partition metadata for topic newTopic due to kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException}] for topic [newTopic]: class kafka.common.LeaderNotAvailableException  (kafka.producer.BrokerPartitionInfo)

> Sending to a new topic (with auto.create.topics.enable) returns ERROR
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>                 Key: KAFKA-1124
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1124
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.8
>            Reporter: Jason Rosenberg
>
> I had thought this was reported issue, but can't seem to find a previous report for it.
> If auto.create.topics.enable is true, a producer still gets an ERROR logged on the first attempt to send a message to a new topic, e.g.:
> 2013-11-06 03:00:08,638 ERROR [Thread-1] async.DefaultEventHandler - Failed to collate messages by topic, partition due to: Failed to fetch topic metadata for topic: mynewtopic
> 2013-11-06 03:00:08,638  INFO [Thread-1] async.DefaultEventHandler - Back off for 100 ms before retrying send. Remaining retries = 3
> This usually clears itself up immediately on retry (after 100 ms), as handled by the the kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler (with retries enabled).
> However, this is logged to the client as an ERROR, and looks scary, when in fact it should have been a normal operation (since we have auto.create.topics.enable=true).
> There should be a better interaction here between the producer client and the server.
> Perhaps the server can create the topic in flight before returning the metadata request.
> Or, if it needs to be asynchronous, it could return a code which indicates something like: "The topic doesn't exist yet, it is being created, try again shortly".....and have the client automatically retry (even if retries not enabled, since it's not an ERROR condition, really).
> The ERROR log level is a problem since apps often have alert systems set up to notify when any ERROR happens, etc.....



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