Stevo Slavic created KAFKA-1674:
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Summary: auto.create.topics.enable docs are misleading
Key: KAFKA-1674
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1674
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 0.8.1.1
Reporter: Stevo Slavic
Priority: Minor
{{auto.create.topics.enable}} is currently
[documented|http://kafka.apache.org/08/configuration.html] with
{quote}
Enable auto creation of topic on the server. If this is set to true then
attempts to produce, consume, or fetch metadata for a non-existent topic will
automatically create it with the default replication factor and number of
partitions.
{quote}
In Kafka 0.8.1.1 reality, topics are only created when trying to publish a
message on non-existing topic.
After
[discussion|http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/kafka-users/201410.mbox/%3CCAFbh0Q1WXLUDO-im1fQ1yEvrMduxmXbj5HXVc3Cq8B%3DfeMso9g%40mail.gmail.com%3E]
with [~junrao] conclusion was that it's documentation issue which needs to be
fixed.
Please check once more if this is just non-working functionality. If it is docs
only issue, and implicit topic creation functionality should work only for
producer, consider moving configuration property (docs only, but maybe code
also?) from broker configuration options to producer configuration options.
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