def send_produce_request(self, payloads=(), acks=1, timeout=1000,
                             fail_on_error=True, callback=None):
        """
        Encode and send some ProduceRequests

        ProduceRequests will be grouped by (topic, partition) and then
        sent to a specific broker. Output is a list of responses in the
        same order as the list of payloads specified

        Arguments:
            payloads (list of ProduceRequest): produce requests to send to kafka
                ProduceRequest payloads must not contain duplicates for any
                topic-partition.
            acks (int, optional): how many acks the servers should receive from replica
                brokers before responding to the request. If it is 0, the server
                will not send any response. If it is 1, the server will wait
                until the data is written to the local log before sending a
                response.  If it is -1, the server will wait until the message
                is committed by all in-sync replicas before sending a response.
                For any value > 1, the server will wait for this number of acks to
                occur (but the server will never wait for more acknowledgements than
                there are in-sync replicas). defaults to 1.
            timeout (int, optional): maximum time in milliseconds the server can
                await the receipt of the number of acks, defaults to 1000.
            fail_on_error (bool, optional): raise exceptions on connection and
                server response errors, defaults to True.
            callback (function, optional): instead of returning the ProduceResponse,
                first pass it through this function, defaults to None.

        Returns:
            list of ProduceResponses, or callback results if supplied, in the
            order of input payloads
        """

        encoder = functools.partial(
            KafkaProtocol.encode_produce_request,
            acks=acks,
            timeout=timeout)

        if acks == 0:
            decoder = None
        else:
            decoder = KafkaProtocol.decode_produce_response

        resps = self._send_broker_aware_request(payloads, encoder, decoder)

        return [resp if not callback else callback(resp) for resp in resps
                if resp is not None and
                (not fail_on_error or not self._raise_on_response_error(resp))]