using reactor.kafka to either describe topic or get kafka metadata

I am using reactor.kafka.sender.KafkaSender, reactor.kafka.sender.SenderRecord to connect to kafka and send messages.

here, the sender record initialises the connection lazily and takes more time for initial requests.

I want to add a call to either get kafka metadata or just describe a topic during init so that when actual requests come in, it'll be pretty fast.

I didn't find any solutions online, looked at reactor.kafka documentation.