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Finally, this feature uses Kafka's Admin API methods to check for the existence of a topic and to create new topics. This feature will do nothing if the broker does not support the Admin API methods, which is equivalent to relying upon auto-topic creation. If ACLs are used, the Kafka principal used in the Connect worker's producer.* settings is assumed to have privilege to create topics when needed; if not, then appropriate overrides will have to be present in the connector's configuration, and, finally, if that's not in place either an error will be logged but and the worker will revert to the old behavior of assuming the topics exist or will be auto-created by the broker.task will fail if this feature is enabled. 

Rejected Alternatives

Several alternative designs were considered but ultimately rejected:

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