Remove duplicates from topics

[Smriti-OSS]

This PR is intended to fix the issues observed in #2264.

Summary of the issue: Passing duplicate topics into the Consume function leads to uneven partition division between different consumers of the consumer group.

References: Java client handles this issue by always discarding duplicates - as it collapses the collection of topics into a set.

[Smriti-OSS]

@dnwe Could you please review the issue and PR.

[Smriti-OSS]

Issue could be tested by adding this testcase to balance_strategy_test.go:

{
name: "2 members, 1 topic, 8 partitions each",
members: map[string][]string{"M1": {"T1", "T1", "T1", "T1", "T1", "T1", "T1", "T1"}, "M2": {"T1", "T1", "T1", "T1", "T1", "T1", "T1", "T1"}},
topics: map[string][]int32{"T1": {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}},
expected: BalanceStrategyPlan{
"M1": map[string][]int32{"T1": {0, 1, 2, 3}},
"M2": map[string][]int32{"T1": {4, 5, 6, 7}},
},
},

This fails with:

=== RUN TestBalanceStrategyRange
=== RUN TestBalanceStrategyRange/2_members,_1_topic,_8_partitions_each#01
balance_strategy_test.go:101: Plan does not match expectation
expected: sarama.BalanceStrategyPlan{"M1":map[string][]int32{"T1":[]int32{0, 1, 2, 3}}, "M2":map[string][]int32{"T1":[]int32{4, 5, 6, 7}}}
actual: sarama.BalanceStrategyPlan{"M1":map[string][]int32{"T1":[]int32{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}}}
--- FAIL: TestBalanceStrategyRange (0.00s)
--- FAIL: TestBalanceStrategyRange/2_members,_1_topic,_8_partitions_each#01 (0.00s)

[dnwe]

@Smriti-OSS ah thanks — yes so the issue is that the consumer has duplicate topics in the consumer group metadata sent as part of the JoinGroupRequest and used for generating the assignments

[dnwe]

I've pushed up #2285 with the sample unittest and to cover de-duplication in the balance_strategy — as I think it's worth doing it there as well as in the consumer group itself

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