From bac883a53bce3b16d46201529d54e5476b7b8630 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vlad Lazar <vlad@redpanda.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 17:19:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tests: test topic creation with invalid configs

Add tests for topic creation requests that use unexpected literal
values (e.g. `compression.type=foo`).
---
 tests/rptest/tests/rpk_topic_test.py | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/rptest/tests/rpk_topic_test.py b/tests/rptest/tests/rpk_topic_test.py
index 336e20210b8e..ecfcbcb5fbfa 100644
--- a/tests/rptest/tests/rpk_topic_test.py
+++ b/tests/rptest/tests/rpk_topic_test.py
@@ -7,13 +7,15 @@
 # the Business Source License, use of this software will be governed
 # by the Apache License, Version 2.0
 
+from ducktape.mark import parametrize
 from ducktape.utils.util import wait_until
 from rptest.services.cluster import cluster
 import ducktape.errors
 
 from rptest.tests.redpanda_test import RedpandaTest
-from rptest.clients.rpk import RpkTool
+from rptest.clients.rpk import RpkTool, RpkException
 from rptest.services.rpk_consumer import RpkConsumer
+from rptest.util import expect_exception
 
 import time
 import random
@@ -34,6 +36,16 @@ def test_create_topic(self):
                    backoff_sec=1,
                    err_msg="Topic never appeared.")
 
+    @cluster(num_nodes=1)
+    @parametrize(config_type="compression.type")
+    @parametrize(config_type="compaction.strategy")
+    @parametrize(config_type="message.timestamp.type")
+    @parametrize(config_type="cleanup.policy")
+    def test_create_topic_with_invalid_config(self, config_type):
+        with expect_exception(RpkException,
+                              lambda e: "INVALID_CONFIG" in str(e)):
+            out = self._rpk.create_topic("topic", config={config_type: "foo"})
+
     @cluster(num_nodes=4)
     def test_produce(self):
         topic = 'topic'