Bug: cluster admin refresh medatadata report error when set Metadata.Full to false.

[3AceShowHand]

Versions

When there is no topic in the Kafka cluster, metadata cannot be reported, if we set Metadata.Full to false.

Please specify real version numbers or git SHAs, not just "Latest" since that changes fairly regularly.

Sarama	Kafka	Go
v1.12.7	3.0.0	1.17.2

Configuration

Config.Metadata.Full = false

What configuration values are you using for Sarama and Kafka?

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Problem Description

[3AceShowHand]

Consider the following scenario:

For a totally new Kafka cluster, there do not exist any topics yet, user tries to fetch metadata, then creates the topic by calling admin.CreateTopic method.

At the moment, this is not allowed, I think this is a bug.

[nkostoulas]

The docs do state:

ErrNoTopicsToUpdateMetadata is returned when Meta.Full is set to false but no specific topics were found to update the metadata.

I too don't get the intuition of that though.

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