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Flink Jira Bot commented on FLINK-6928: --------------------------------------- This major issue is unassigned and itself and all of its Sub-Tasks have not been updated for 30 days. So, it has been labeled "stale-major". If this ticket is indeed "major", please either assign yourself or give an update. Afterwards, please remove the label. In 7 days the issue will be deprioritized. > Kafka sink: default topic should not need to exist > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-6928 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6928 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Connectors / Kafka > Affects Versions: 1.2.1, 1.3.0 > Reporter: Erik van Oosten > Priority: Major > Labels: stale-major > > When using a Kafka sink, the defaultTopic needs to exist even when it is > never used. It would be nice if fetching partition information for the > default topic would be delayed until the moment a topic is actually used. > Cause: {{FlinkKafkaProducerBase.open}} fetches partition information for the > default topic. > In addition, it would be nice if we could signal that the defaultTopic is not > needed by passing {{null}}. Currently, a value for the defaultTopic is > required. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)