org.apache.kafka.common.errors.TimeoutException: Topic not present in metadata after 60000 ms

Question

I'm getting the error:

 org.apache.kafka.common.errors.TimeoutException: Topic testtopic2 not present in metadata after 60000 ms.

When trying to produce to the topic in my local kafka instance on windows using Java. Note that the topic testtopic2 exists and I'm able produce messages to it using the windows console producer just fine.

Below the code that I'm using:

import java.util.Properties;

import org.apache.kafka.clients.CommonClientConfigs;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.Callback;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.Producer;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerConfig;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerRecord;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.RecordMetadata;

public class Kafka_Producer {

    public static void main(String[] args){

        Properties props = new Properties();
        props.put(ProducerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, "localhost:9092");
        props.put(ProducerConfig.ACKS_CONFIG, "all");
        props.put(ProducerConfig.RETRIES_CONFIG, 0);
        props.put(ProducerConfig.VALUE_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer");
        props.put(ProducerConfig.KEY_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG, "org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer");

        Producer<String, String> producer = new KafkaProducer<String, String>(props);
        TestCallback callback = new TestCallback();
        for (long i = 0; i < 100 ; i++) {
            ProducerRecord<String, String> data = new ProducerRecord<String, String>(
                    "testtopic2", "key-" + i, "message-"+i );
            producer.send(data, callback);
        }

        producer.close();
    }


    private static class TestCallback implements Callback {
        @Override
        public void onCompletion(RecordMetadata recordMetadata, Exception e) {
            if (e != null) {
                System.out.println("Error while producing message to topic :" + recordMetadata);
                e.printStackTrace();
            } else {
                String message = String.format("sent message to topic:%s partition:%s  offset:%s", recordMetadata.topic(), recordMetadata.partition(), recordMetadata.offset());
                System.out.println(message);
            }
        }
    }

}

Pom dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
    <artifactId>kafka-clients</artifactId>
    <version>2.6.0</version>
</dependency>

Output of list and describe:

Answer 1

I was having this same problem today. I'm a newbie at Kafka and was simply trying to get a sample Java producer and consumer running. I was able to get the consumer working, but kept getting the same "topic not present in metadata" error as you with the producer.

Finally, out of desperation, I added some code to my producer to dump the topics. When I did this, I got runtime errors because of missing classes in packages jackson-databind and jackson-core. After adding them, I no longer got the "topic not present" error. I removed the topic-dumping code I temporarily added and it still worked.