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| author | Dana Powers <dana.powers@rd.io> | 2016-01-24 22:01:09 -0800 |
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| committer | Dana Powers <dana.powers@rd.io> | 2016-01-25 10:09:15 -0800 |
| commit | 0d5899020a75e22fec14d3e3d7aec8f043d60a31 (patch) | |
| tree | e227d12865560026a3170196b331d4d843a9e7fd /README.rst | |
| parent | 2c7b7452a8ca761672e70ee56b3779e4a96c1997 (diff) | |
| download | kafka-python-0d5899020a75e22fec14d3e3d7aec8f043d60a31.tar.gz | |
Add support for LZ4 compressed messages using python-lz4 module
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@@ -79,6 +79,14 @@ for more details. >>> for i in range(1000): ... producer.send('foobar', b'msg %d' % i) +Compression +*********** + +kafka-python supports gzip compression/decompression natively. To produce or +consume snappy and lz4 compressed messages, you must install `lz4` (`lz4-cffi` +if using pypy) and/or `python-snappy` (also requires snappy library). +See `Installation <http://kafka-python.readthedocs.org/en/master/install.html#optional-snappy-install>`_ +for more information. Protocol ******** |