From 0f5660710a5722c135b3e27f2f64836c174a13ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matias Fontanini <matias.fontanini@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 20:31:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add default constructor to Topic

---
 include/cppkafka/topic.h | 8 ++++++++
 src/topic.cpp            | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/cppkafka/topic.h b/include/cppkafka/topic.h
index f710424..0264bc8 100644
--- a/include/cppkafka/topic.h
+++ b/include/cppkafka/topic.h
@@ -51,6 +51,14 @@ public:
      */
     static Topic make_non_owning(rd_kafka_topic_t* handle);
 
+    /**
+     * \brief Constructs an empty topic
+     *
+     * Note that using any methods except Topic::get_handle on an empty topic is undefined 
+     * behavior
+     */
+    Topic();
+
     /**
      * \brief Constructs a topic using a handle
      *
diff --git a/src/topic.cpp b/src/topic.cpp
index 34a1521..f291e0c 100644
--- a/src/topic.cpp
+++ b/src/topic.cpp
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ Topic Topic::make_non_owning(rd_kafka_topic_t* handle) {
     return Topic(handle, NonOwningTag{});
 }
 
+Topic::Topic() 
+: handle_(nullptr, nullptr) {
+
+}
+
 Topic::Topic(rd_kafka_topic_t* handle) 
 : handle_(handle, &rd_kafka_topic_destroy) {