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Grant Henke reassigned KAFKA-2410: ---------------------------------- Assignee: (was: Grant Henke) > Implement "Auto Topic Creation" client side and remove support from Broker > side > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-2410 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-2410 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: clients, core > Affects Versions: 0.8.2.1 > Reporter: Grant Henke > Priority: Major > > Auto topic creation on the broker has caused pain in the past; And today it > still causes unusual error handling requirements on the client side, added > complexity in the broker, mixed responsibility of the TopicMetadataRequest, > and limits configuration of the option to be cluster wide. In the future > having it broker side will also make features such as authorization very > difficult. > There have been discussions in the past of implementing this feature client > side. > [example|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-689?focusedCommentId=13548746&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13548746] > This Jira is to track that discussion and implementation once the necessary > protocol support exists: KAFKA-2229 -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)