GitHub user huxihx opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3223
KAFKA-5098: KafkaProducer.send() should validate topic name before sending KafkaProducer.send() should check topic name before sending the record. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/huxihx/kafka KAFKA-5098_Does_not_check_topic_name_before_sending Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3223.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 #3223 ---- commit b457518b55f8f7c32ca5e6849fa4052b596c98e1 Author: huxihx <huxi...@hotmail.com> Date: 2017-06-03T06:50:05Z KAFKA-5098: KafkaProducer.send() blocks and generates TimeoutException if topic name has illegal char Validate topic name before sending the record ---- --- 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. ---