1 files changed, 52 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kafka/client_async.py b/kafka/client_async.py
index 8c61288..8a92159 100644
--- a/kafka/client_async.py
+++ b/kafka/client_async.py
@@ -471,6 +471,58 @@ class KafkaClient(object):
         """
         self._delayed_tasks.remove(task)
 
+    def check_version(self, node_id=None):
+        """Attempt to guess the broker version"""
+        if node_id is None:
+            node_id = self.least_loaded_node()
+
+        def connect():
+            timeout = time.time() + 10
+            # brokers < 0.9 do not return any broker metadata if there are no topics
+            # so we're left with a single bootstrap connection
+            while not self.ready(node_id):
+                if time.time() >= timeout:
+                    raise Errors.NodeNotReadyError(node_id)
+                time.sleep(0.025)
+
+        # kafka kills the connection when it doesnt recognize an API request
+        # so we can send a test request and then follow immediately with a
+        # vanilla MetadataRequest. If the server did not recognize the first
+        # request, both will be failed with a ConnectionError that wraps
+        # socket.error (32 or 54)
+        import socket
+        from .protocol.admin import ListGroupsRequest
+        from .protocol.commit import (
+            OffsetFetchRequest_v0, GroupCoordinatorRequest)
+        from .protocol.metadata import MetadataRequest
+
+        test_cases = [
+            ('0.9', ListGroupsRequest()),
+            ('0.8.2', GroupCoordinatorRequest('kafka-python-default-group')),
+            ('0.8.1', OffsetFetchRequest_v0('kafka-python-default-group', [])),
+            ('0.8.0', MetadataRequest([])),
+        ]
+
+
+        for version, request in test_cases:
+            connect()
+            f = self.send(node_id, request)
+            time.sleep(0.5)
+            self.send(node_id, MetadataRequest([]))
+            self.poll(future=f)
+
+            assert f.is_done
+
+            if f.succeeded():
+                log.info('Broker version identifed as %s', version)
+                return version
+
+            assert isinstance(f.exception.message, socket.error)
+            assert f.exception.message.errno in (32, 54)
+            log.info("Broker is not v%s -- it did not recognize %s",
+                     version, request.__class__.__name__)
+            continue
+
 
 class DelayedTaskQueue(object):
     # see https://docs.python.org/2/library/heapq.html