Error when creating a topic using aiokafka 0.11.0

[hgalytoby]

poetry add faust-stream

import faust


class Greeting(faust.Record):
    from_name: str
    to_name: str


app = faust.App('hello-app', broker='kafka://localhost')
topic = app.topic('hello-topic', value_type=Greeting)


@app.agent(topic)
async def hello(greetings):
    async for greeting in greetings:
        print(f'Hello from {greeting.from_name} to {greeting.to_name}')


@app.timer(interval=1.0)
async def example_sender(app):
    await hello.send(
        value=Greeting(from_name='Faust', to_name='you'),
    )


if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.main()

error

AttributeError: 'CreateTopicsRequest_v1' object has no attribute 'build_request_header'

No problems with aiokafka 0.10.0

[fonty422]

Do you need the Faust application to create the topic? Can you try to add the topic manually with the Kafka topic scripts and see if that helps?

[hgalytoby]

Usually I don't need faust to create a topic, usually faust just creates the leader topic for me.

I know there are other ways to create topics, it's just a matter of me finding out about it and letting it be known!

[fonty422]

I have an issue with my applications where if I use Faust to create the topics it often results in a topic not being created (something about topic can't be used while being created) and then the error message ignoring missing topic: . I think this is due to a large volume of applications being started at the same time and the CPU is wildly overloaded.

To get around this, I manually create the topics before hand using the kafka_topics.sh (or .bat if using windows) that's part of your kafka download and found in the bin directory.

For me, when ever I start my application I first run:
kafka-topics.sh --create --if-not-exists --topic <topic name> --bootstrap-server=<address> --partitions=<partitions>
replacing topic name, address, and partitions with the appropriate values.

The --if-not-exists argument will only create the topic if it doesn't already exist.

[jjwwiodyne]

I'm seeing the same issue with the combination of faust 0.11.0 and aiokafka 0.10.0. Forcing aiokafka==0.10.0 fixes the issue.

[somnam]

Added a PR for this #631, can someone have a look?