hi Anand thanks for this report. I have opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-20089 to track it. Please feel free to leave your comment on the ticket.
Best, Chia-Ping On 2026/01/20 13:02:34 Subra I wrote: > Hello All, > > I am using Kafka-clients-4.1.1.jar with a kafka broker that is on version > 4.0.0. From my Java code, when I call the KafkaConsumer partitionsFor API, > I see that it works when the topic is already created in kafka. But if it > is not yet created, the above API call returns empty - no information. > > I noticed that just before I call partitionsFor API, the topic is not > created. But after I call this API, the topic gets created, but this API > still returns no information. Of course, if I call the same API again, I do > get valid information for this topic. > > I used to have kafka-clients-3.9.0.jar earlier. There both these cases were > working fine. Is this a new change in behavior in kafka-clients-4.1.1.jar? > > Thanks, > Anand >
