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Jay Kreps commented on KAFKA-371: --------------------------------- Got it, committed. > Creating topic of empty string puts broker in a bad state > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-371 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-371 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.6, 0.7 > Reporter: Martin Kleppmann > Assignee: Jay Kreps > Fix For: 0.8 > > Attachments: KAFKA-371-0.7.1.patch, KAFKA-371-0.8-v2.patch, > KAFKA-371-0.8.patch > > > Using the Java client library, I accidentally published a message where the > topic name was the empty string. This put the broker in a bad state where > publishing became impossible, and the following exception was logged 10-20 > times per second: > 2012-06-21 00:41:30,324 [kafka-processor-3] ERROR kafka.network.Processor - > Closing socket for /127.0.0.1 because of er > ror > kafka.common.InvalidTopicException: topic name can't be empty > at kafka.log.LogManager.getOrCreateLog(LogManager.scala:165) > at > kafka.server.KafkaRequestHandlers.kafka$server$KafkaRequestHandlers$$handleProducerRequest(KafkaRequestHandle > rs.scala:75) > at > kafka.server.KafkaRequestHandlers.handleProducerRequest(KafkaRequestHandlers.scala:58) > at > kafka.server.KafkaRequestHandlers$$anonfun$handlerFor$1.apply(KafkaRequestHandlers.scala:43) > at > kafka.server.KafkaRequestHandlers$$anonfun$handlerFor$1.apply(KafkaRequestHandlers.scala:43) > at kafka.network.Processor.handle(SocketServer.scala:289) > at kafka.network.Processor.read(SocketServer.scala:312) > at kafka.network.Processor.run(SocketServer.scala:207) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) > Restarting Kafka did not help. I had to manually clear out the bad state in > Zookeeper to resolve the problem. > The broker should not accept a message that would put it in such a bad state. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira