Support for PLAIN sasl authentication (PR #779)

  Merge squashed branch 'larsjsol-sasl_plain'

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kafka/client_async.py b/kafka/client_async.py
index dd4df82..6e07ab0 100644
--- a/kafka/client_async.py
+++ b/kafka/client_async.py
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ class KafkaClient(object):
         'selector': selectors.DefaultSelector,
         'metrics': None,
         'metric_group_prefix': '',
+        'sasl_mechanism': None,
+        'sasl_plain_username': None,
+        'sasl_plain_password': None,
     }
     API_VERSIONS = [
         (0, 10),
@@ -150,6 +153,13 @@ class KafkaClient(object):
             metrics (kafka.metrics.Metrics): Optionally provide a metrics
                 instance for capturing network IO stats. Default: None.
             metric_group_prefix (str): Prefix for metric names. Default: ''
+            sasl_mechanism (str): string picking sasl mechanism when security_protocol
+                is SASL_PLAINTEXT or SASL_SSL. Currently only PLAIN is supported.
+                Default: None
+            sasl_plain_username (str): username for sasl PLAIN authentication.
+                Default: None
+            sasl_plain_password (str): passowrd for sasl PLAIN authentication.
+                Defualt: None
         """
         self.config = copy.copy(self.DEFAULT_CONFIG)
         for key in self.config: