[KAFKA-12404] Provision to propagate error message from Authorizer to clients

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.6.0
• Component/s: clients, protocol, security
• Assignee: YI-CHEN WANG
• Reporter: Giri
• Created: 03/Mar/21 11:42
• Updated: 05/Mar/21 07:20

Description

Only some of the APIs (create topic, delete topic ) carry forward the error thrown from the Authorizer to the client. It would be better to convey specific error message when available instead of generic error message.