Equivalent for objectmapper in python

Question

I want to serialize my data in python for sending data to Kafka as a producer. :-)

and also there is a client with java that will deserialize messages with java and kafka.common.serialization

what is the equivalent for

objectmapper.writeValueAsString().getBytes()

in python?

in other words, how should I serialize data with python to be readable from the consumer side(java)?

thanks
a lot

Answer 1

You would need to get a dict object, then json.dumps it into the value of the Kafka record.

import json 
...

producer = KafkaProducer(...)

data = {"some":"data"}
producer.send(topic, value=json.dumps(data))