Github user zjureel commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3915
Thank you for your suggestion. It sounds good and will be more friendly to
users than throwing exception in `FlinkKafkaConsumerBase`. I'll fix it soon,
thanks :)
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