fix: improve Kafka error handling

write_buffer/src/kafka.rs

@@ -392,13 +392,17 @@ fn admin_client(kafka_connection: &str) -> Result<AdminClient<DefaultClientConte
     cfg.create()
 }
 
-/// Create Kafka topic for testing.
+/// Create Kafka topic based on the provided configs.
+///
+/// This is create a topic with `n_sequencers` partitions.
+///
+/// This will NOT fail if the topic already exists!
 async fn create_kafka_topic(
     kafka_connection: &str,
     database_name: &str,
     n_sequencers: NonZeroU32,
     cfg: &HashMap<String, String>,
-) -> Result<(), KafkaError> {
+) -> Result<(), WriteBufferError> {
     let admin = admin_client(kafka_connection)?;
 
     let mut topic = NewTopic::new(
@@ -411,9 +415,19 @@ async fn create_kafka_topic(
     }
 
     let opts = AdminOptions::default();
-    admin.create_topics([&topic], &opts).await?;
-
+    let mut results = admin.create_topics([&topic], &opts).await?;
+    assert_eq!(results.len(), 1, "created exactly one topic");
+    let result = results.pop().expect("just checked the vector length");
+    match result {
+        Ok(topic) | Err((topic, RDKafkaErrorCode::TopicAlreadyExists)) => {
+            assert_eq!(topic, database_name);
             Ok(())
+        }
+        Err((topic, code)) => {
+            assert_eq!(topic, database_name);
+            Err(format!("Cannot create topic '{}': {}", topic, code).into())
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 pub mod test_utils {
@@ -496,7 +510,10 @@ pub mod test_utils {
 
         let cfg =
             AlterConfig::new(ResourceSpecifier::Topic(database_name)).set("retention.ms", "-1");
-        admin.alter_configs([&cfg], &opts).await.unwrap();
+        let mut results = admin.alter_configs([&cfg], &opts).await.unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(results.len(), 1, "created exactly one topic");
+        let result = results.pop().expect("just checked the vector length");
+        result.unwrap();
     }
 
     /// Generated random topic name for testing.
@@ -603,4 +620,26 @@ mod tests {
 
         perform_generic_tests(KafkaTestAdapter::new(conn)).await;
     }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn topic_create_twice() {
+        let conn = maybe_skip_kafka_integration!();
+        let database_name = random_kafka_topic();
+        create_kafka_topic(
+            &conn,
+            &database_name,
+            NonZeroU32::try_from(1).unwrap(),
+            &kafka_sequencer_creation_config(),
+        )
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+        create_kafka_topic(
+            &conn,
+            &database_name,
+            NonZeroU32::try_from(1).unwrap(),
+            &kafka_sequencer_creation_config(),
+        )
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+    }
 }