GitHub user ijuma opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3220
KAFKA-5374: Set allow auto topic creation to false when requesting node information only It avoids the need to handle protocol downgrades and it's safe (i.e. it will never cause the auto creation of topics). You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/ijuma/kafka kafka-5374-admin-client-metadata Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3220.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #3220 ---- commit 7b255c597f90a0823d7b2e594d6bb32dda04087d Author: Colin P. Mccabe <cmcc...@confluent.io> Date: 2017-06-03T00:01:02Z KAFKA-5374. AdminClient gets "server returned information about unknown correlation ID" when communicating with older brokers commit 29cde9a008efcdc1ea663983e3f5dbdd8944bed4 Author: Ismael Juma <ism...@juma.me.uk> Date: 2017-06-03T01:31:46Z Fix checkstyle and add comments ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---