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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 If the broker does not support the Admin API methods, which is equivalent to relying upon auto-topic creationan error will be logged and the task will fail if this feature is enabled. 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, then an error will be logged and the task will fail if this feature is enabled. 

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