Not able to send large messages to Kafka

Question

I want to send a large message from producer to Kafka so I've changed below properties.

Broker (server.properties)

replica.fetch.max.bytes=317344026
message.max.bytes=317344026
max.message.bytes=317344026
max.request.size=317344026

Producer (producer.properties)

max.request.size=3173440261

Consumer (consumer.properties)

max.partition.fetch.bytes=327344026
fetch.message.max.bytes=317344026

Still I'm getting some error showing as below when I use python Popen and cli command of kafta to run producer.

Code:

def producer(topic_name, content):
    p = subprocess.Popen(['/opt/kafka/kafka_2.11-0.9.0.0/bin/kafka-console-producer.sh', '--broker-list', 'localhost:9092', '--topic', 'Hello-Kafka'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
    p.stdin.write(content)
    out, err = p.communicate()
    print out

Error:

ERROR Error when sending message to topic Hello-Kafka with key: null, value: 1677562 bytes with error: The message is 1677588 bytes when serialized which is larger than the maximum request size you have configured with the max.request.size configuration. (org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.ErrorLoggingCallback)

And I'm getting below error when I uses python module for kafka (https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python)

Code:

def producer(topic_name, content):
    p = KafkaProducer(bootstrap_servers='localhost:9092')
    a = p.send(topic_name, content).get()
    print a    
    p.flush()
    p.close()

Error:

kafka.errors.MessageSizeTooLargeError: [Error 10] MessageSizeTooLargeError: The message is 217344026 bytes when serialized which is larger than the maximum request size you have configured with the max_request_size configuration

One thing that I've tried successfully is by dividing content in chunks but if anyone has any solution to do this without dividing content.

Answer 1

kafka-console-producer.sh

You didn't use your producer.properties file when calling kafka-console-producer.sh.
Use --producer.config flag.

KafkaProducer

Your KafkaProducer is using default values. You have to set max_request_size when calling it.
See KafkaProducer doc

KafkaProducer(bootstrap_servers='localhost:9092', max_request_size=3173440261)