Can I call the Bluemix message hub service from Python?

Question

The kafka-python client supports Kafka 0.9 but doesn\'t obviously include the new authentication and encryption features so my guess is that it only works with open servers (as

Answer 1

We've added some text to our documentation on non-Java language support - see the "CONNECTING AND AUTHENTICATING IN A NON-JAVA APPLICATION" section: https://www.ng.bluemix.net/docs/services/MessageHub/index.html

Our current authentication method is non-standard and not supported by the Apache project, but was a temporary solution. The Message Hub team is working with the Apache Kafka community to develop KIP-43. Once this is finalised, we'll change the Message Hub authentication implementation to match and it will be possible to implement clients to that spec in any language.