GitHub user alexpf opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5929
[FLINK-8497] [connectors] KafkaConsumer throws NPE if topic doesn't exist
## What is the purpose of the change
To make the Kafka connector behavior clearer for the API user, by throwing
a specific exception
## Brief change log
- Added throwing IllegalStateException when KafkaConsumer returns null
for the topic partitions.
- Since Kafka maintains the map of topics, returning null means topic
does not exist.
## Verifying this change
This change added tests and can be verified as follows:
- Added new test class Kafka09PartitionDiscovererTest.java with an
appropriate unit test
## Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts:
- Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): no
- The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with
`@Public(Evolving)`: no
- The serializers: no
- The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): no
- Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its
components), Checkpointing, Yarn/Mesos, ZooKeeper: no
- The S3 file system connector: no
## Documentation
- Does this pull request introduce a new feature? no
- If yes, how is the feature documented? n/a
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/alexpf/flink FLINK-8497
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5929.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 #5929
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commit 6441cc568d4a4ff632c3f7daf351e2d11f339af3
Author: Aleksei Lesnov <alexey.lesnov@...>
Date: 2018-04-27T12:24:22Z
[FLINK-8497] [connectors] KafkaConsumer throws NPE if topic doesn't exist
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