Moved codec stuff into it's own module

Snappy will go there when I get around to it

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kafka/codec.py b/kafka/codec.py
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index 0000000..47ab074
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+++ b/kafka/codec.py
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+from cStringIO import StringIO
+import gzip
+import logging
+
+log = logging.getLogger("kafka.codec")
+
+def gzip_encode(payload):
+    buf = StringIO()
+    f = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=buf, mode='w', compresslevel=6)
+    f.write(payload)
+    f.close()
+    buf.seek(0)
+    out = buf.read()
+    buf.close()
+    return out
+
+def gzip_decode(payload):
+    buf = StringIO(payload)
+    f = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=buf, mode='r')
+    out = f.read()
+    f.close()
+    buf.close()
+    return out