Add method to ensure a valid topic name (#1238)

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kafka/consumer/subscription_state.py b/kafka/consumer/subscription_state.py
index 19046ae..3d4dfef 100644
--- a/kafka/consumer/subscription_state.py
+++ b/kafka/consumer/subscription_state.py
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ class SubscriptionState(object):
         " (2) subscribe to topics matching a regex pattern,"
         " (3) assign itself specific topic-partitions.")
 
+    # Taken from: https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/39eb31feaeebfb184d98cc5d94da9148c2319d81/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/internals/Topic.java#L29
+    _MAX_NAME_LENGTH = 249
+    _TOPIC_LEGAL_CHARS = re.compile('^[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+$')
+
     def __init__(self, offset_reset_strategy='earliest'):
         """Initialize a SubscriptionState instance
 
@@ -120,6 +124,24 @@ class SubscriptionState(object):
             raise TypeError('listener must be a ConsumerRebalanceListener')
         self.listener = listener
 
+    def _ensure_valid_topic_name(self, topic):
+        """ Ensures that the topic name is valid according to the kafka source. """
+
+        # See Kafka Source:
+        # https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/39eb31feaeebfb184d98cc5d94da9148c2319d81/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/internals/Topic.java
+        if topic is None:
+            raise TypeError('All topics must not be None')
+        if not isinstance(topic, six.string_types):
+            raise TypeError('All topics must be strings')
+        if len(topic) == 0:
+            raise ValueError('All topics must be non-empty strings')
+        if topic == '.' or topic == '..':
+            raise ValueError('Topic name cannot be "." or ".."')
+        if len(topic) > self._MAX_NAME_LENGTH:
+            raise ValueError('Topic name is illegal, it can\'t be longer than {0} characters, topic: "{1}"'.format(self._MAX_NAME_LENGTH, topic))
+        if not self._TOPIC_LEGAL_CHARS.match(topic):
+            raise ValueError('Topic name "{0}" is illegal, it contains a character other than ASCII alphanumerics, ".", "_" and "-"'.format(topic))
+
     def change_subscription(self, topics):
         """Change the topic subscription.
 
@@ -128,7 +150,10 @@ class SubscriptionState(object):
 
         Raises:
             IllegalStateErrror: if assign_from_user has been used already
-            TypeError: if a non-str topic is given
+            TypeError: if a topic is None or a non-str
+            ValueError: if a topic is an empty string or
+                        - a topic name is '.' or '..' or
+                        - a topic name does not consist of ASCII-characters/'-'/'_'/'.'
         """
         if self._user_assignment:
             raise IllegalStateError(self._SUBSCRIPTION_EXCEPTION_MESSAGE)
@@ -141,8 +166,8 @@ class SubscriptionState(object):
                         topics)
             return
 
-        if any(not isinstance(t, six.string_types) for t in topics):
-            raise TypeError('All topics must be strings')
+        for t in topics:
+            self._ensure_valid_topic_name(t)
 
         log.info('Updating subscribed topics to: %s', topics)
         self.subscription = set(topics)