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-rw-r--r--kafka/producer/base.py7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kafka/producer/base.py b/kafka/producer/base.py
index 7f9b18c..6e19b92 100644
--- a/kafka/producer/base.py
+++ b/kafka/producer/base.py
@@ -172,6 +172,8 @@ class Producer(object):
return self._send_messages(topic, partition, *msg)
def _send_messages(self, topic, partition, *msg, **kwargs):
+ key = kwargs.pop('key', None)
+
# Guarantee that msg is actually a list or tuple (should always be true)
if not isinstance(msg, (list, tuple)):
raise TypeError("msg is not a list or tuple!")
@@ -180,7 +182,10 @@ class Producer(object):
if any(not isinstance(m, six.binary_type) for m in msg):
raise TypeError("all produce message payloads must be type bytes")
- key = kwargs.pop('key', None)
+ # Raise TypeError if the key is not encoded as bytes
+ if key is not None and not isinstance(key, six.binary_type):
+ raise TypeError("the key must be type bytes")
+
if self.async:
for m in msg:
self.queue.put((TopicAndPartition(topic, partition), m, key))