KIP-361 — K

Accepted Kafka 2.3 Consumer

Adds an `allow.auto.create.topics` configuration to the consumer client (default `true` for backward compatibility) that controls whether the consumer's metadata requests trigger auto topic creation on the broker. When a consumer subscribes to a topic before a producer starts, `allow.auto.create.topics=true` on the broker causes the consumer to create the topic with broker defaults (wrong partition count / replication factor) rather than waiting for the intended topic configuration.

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