[SAMZA-694] Log4j stream appender should create the log topic in Kafka

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0
• Component/s: log4j
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Roger Hoover
• Created: 30/May/15 16:55
• Updated: 01/Jun/15 16:18

Description

If your Kafka brokers do not allow auto topic creation, then the log4j stream appender will just block if the log topic is not already created.

Since the user is not allowed to configure the name of the log stream (why not?), then the Samza should create the topic automatically as it does with checkpoint topics.