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Sriharsha Chintalapani commented on STORM-391: ---------------------------------------------- [~lewuathe] can you make this as optional using KafkaConfig by asking users if they want to wait for the topic incase if it doesn't exists and provide a retry mechanism?. I am not sure on zookeeper watcher , is the plan is put a watcher on kafka zookeepers /topics node? > KafkaSpout to await for the topic > --------------------------------- > > Key: STORM-391 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-391 > Project: Apache Storm > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 0.9.2-incubating > Reporter: Alexey Raga > Labels: features > > When topic does not yet exist and the consumer is asked to consume from it, > the default behaviour for Kafka heigh-level consumer is to "await" for the > topic without a failure. > KafkaSpout currently fails trying to get the partition information about the > topic that does not exist. > It may be a good idea to have the same common behaviour in KafkaSpout and it > can probably be implemented through the zookeeper watchers: if topic does not > exist, then set up a watcher and don't do anything until it yields. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)