Hi James, Interesting find! Could you provide the reproduction as a PR?
Best, David On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 3:57 PM James Palmer via dev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I believe I've found a bug in the Java consumer in kafka-clients 4.1 to > 4.3.1. A consumer using subscribe(SubscriptionPattern) stops sending > Metadata > requests for good once a topic assigned to it is deleted. The client > throws *an > *`IllegalStateException`*: "Use errorsByTopicId() when managing topic using > topic id"*, here > < > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/4.3.1/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/requests/MetadataResponse.java*L99__;Iw!!Ayb5sqE7!qSDPO2wcV2PGYBMekr8WbtaaOvJqcZQ8Y0SftW8mBEbkFrKO0XYLKI6M9ijTGSDBeYXqzh-aLNVzNIp4N-w$ > > > , and after that, it never picks up new topics matching the pattern and > heartbeats until restarted. > > I have a reproduction and have traced the cause, but I haven't been able to > file it yet. My ASF Jira account request (15th Oct) is still awaiting > approval. > > Thanks, > James Palmer > Conduktor >
