Exception : RdKafka\Metadata::__construct() has not been called

[daavelar]

Description

The following code:

<?php

$metadata = new Metadata;
$metadata->getTopics()

Resulted in this output:

Exception : RdKafka\Metadata::__construct() has not been called

But I expected to get the topics list.

php-rdkafka Version

php-rdkafka 6.0.3

librdkafka Version

1.8.2~1confluent7.2.1-1

PHP Version

php 8.1.8

Operating System

Ubuntu 22.04

Kafka Version

2.6.3

[nick-zh]

This might be misleading, you need to call an RdKafka or KafkaConsumer instance to get metadata, see doc Maybe docs or examples can be improved to make this more clear