Add ignore_leadernotavailable kwarg to SimpleClient.load_metadata_for_topics

kafka/client.py

@@ -450,17 +450,10 @@ class SimpleClient(object):
         while not self.has_metadata_for_topic(topic):
             if time.time() > start_time + timeout:
                 raise KafkaTimeoutError('Unable to create topic {0}'.format(topic))
-            try:
-                self.load_metadata_for_topics(topic)
-            except LeaderNotAvailableError:
-                pass
-            except UnknownTopicOrPartitionError:
-                # Server is not configured to auto-create
-                # retrying in this case will not help
-                raise
+            self.load_metadata_for_topics(topic, ignore_leadernotavailable=True)
             time.sleep(.5)
 
-    def load_metadata_for_topics(self, *topics):
+    def load_metadata_for_topics(self, *topics, **kwargs):
         """Fetch broker and topic-partition metadata from the server.
 
         Updates internal data: broker list, topic/partition list, and
@@ -476,6 +469,9 @@ class SimpleClient(object):
             *topics (optional): If a list of topics is provided,
                 the metadata refresh will be limited to the specified topics
                 only.
+            ignore_leadernotavailable (bool): suppress LeaderNotAvailableError
+                so that metadata is loaded correctly during auto-create.
+                Default: False.
 
         Raises:
             UnknownTopicOrPartitionError: Raised for topics that do not exist,
@@ -484,6 +480,11 @@ class SimpleClient(object):
                 when the broker is configured to auto-create topics. Retry
                 after a short backoff (topics/partitions are initializing).
         """
+        if 'ignore_leadernotavailable' in kwargs:
+            ignore_leadernotavailable = kwargs['ignore_leadernotavailable']
+        else:
+            ignore_leadernotavailable = False
+
         if topics:
             self.reset_topic_metadata(*topics)
         else:
@@ -506,6 +507,9 @@ class SimpleClient(object):
                               topic, error_type, error)
                     if topic not in topics:
                         continue
+                    elif (error_type is LeaderNotAvailableError and
+                          ignore_leadernotavailable):
+                        continue
                 raise error_type(topic)
 
             self.topic_partitions[topic] = {}

kafka/consumer/base.py

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ class Consumer(object):
         self.client = client
         self.topic = topic
         self.group = group
-        self.client.load_metadata_for_topics(topic)
+        self.client.load_metadata_for_topics(topic, ignore_leadernotavailable=True)
         self.offsets = {}
 
         if partitions is None:

kafka/producer/keyed.py

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class KeyedProducer(Producer):
     def _next_partition(self, topic, key):
         if topic not in self.partitioners:
             if not self.client.has_metadata_for_topic(topic):
-                self.client.load_metadata_for_topics(topic)
+                self.client.load_metadata_for_topics(topic, ignore_leadernotavailable=True)
 
             self.partitioners[topic] = self.partitioner_class(self.client.get_partition_ids_for_topic(topic))