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CreateError when attempting to create a table

See original GitHub issue

I’m getting an error when trying to create a table. This is the code:

from ksql import KSQLAPI
client = KSQLAPI('http://localhost:8088')
client.create_table(table_name='mytable',
                    columns_type=['viewtime bigint', 'userid varchar', 'pageid varchar'],
                    topic='mytopic',
                    value_format='JSON')

and the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/lrussell/Dev/ksql-plotly-dash/basic.py", line 6, in <module>
    value_format='JSON')
  File "/home/lrussell/.virtualenvs/ksql-plotly-dash/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ksql/client.py", line 50, in create_table
    value_format = value_format)
  File "/home/lrussell/.virtualenvs/ksql-plotly-dash/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ksql/api.py", line 142, in create_table
    value_format=value_format)
  File "/home/lrussell/.virtualenvs/ksql-plotly-dash/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ksql/api.py", line 164, in _create
    return self._parse_ksql_res(r, CreateError)
  File "/home/lrussell/.virtualenvs/ksql-plotly-dash/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ksql/api.py", line 40, in _parse_ksql_res
    raise CreateError(r)
ksql.errors.CreateError: Cannot define a TABLE without providing the KEY column name in the WITH clause.

I think the error might be related to this line. Maybe it needs an extra value in the WITH clause for the key? The key isn’t listed as a required property for creating tables according to the KSQL documentation, but possibly something has changed recently.