A Java MQTT Client
MQTT is a machine-to-machine (M2M)/“Internet of Things” connectivity
protocol. It was designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe
messaging transport. It is useful for connections with remote locations where
a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is at a premium.
mqtt-client provides an ASL 2.0 licensed API to MQTT. It takes care of
automatically reconnecting to your MQTT server and restoring your client
session if any network failures occur. Applications can use a blocking API
style, a futures based API, or a callback/continuations passing API style.
Add the following to your maven pom.xml file.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.fusesource.mqtt-client</groupId>
<artifactId>mqtt-client</artifactId>
<version>1.12</version>
</dependency>
Add the following to your gradle file.
compile 'org.fusesource.mqtt-client:mqtt-client:1.12'
Download the
uber jar file
and add it to your build. The uber contains all the stripped down dependencies
which the mqtt-client depends on from other projects.
We also provide an
java 1.4 uber jar file
which is compatible with Java 1.4 JVMs. This version of the jar
does not support SSL connections since the SSLEngine class used to implement SSL on NIO
was not introduced until Java 1.5.
The blocking, future, and callback APIs all share the same connection setup.
You create a new instance of the MQTT class and configure it with connection
and socket related options. At a minimum the setHost method be called before
attempting to connect.
MQTT mqtt = new MQTT();
mqtt.setHost("localhost", 1883);
// or
mqtt.setHost("tcp://localhost:1883");
setClientId : Use to set the client Id of the session. This is what an MQTT server
uses to identify a session where setCleanSession(false); is being used. The id must be
23 characters or less. Defaults to auto generated id (based on your socket address, port
and timestamp).
setCleanSession : Set to false if you want the MQTT server to persist topic subscriptions
and ack positions across client sessions. Defaults to true.
setKeepAlive : Configures the Keep Alive timer in seconds. Defines the maximum time
interval between messages received from a client. It enables the server to detect that the
network connection to a client has dropped, without having to wait for the long TCP/IP timeout.
setUserName : Sets the user name used to authenticate against the server.
setPassword : Sets the password used to authenticate against the server.
setWillTopic: If set the server will publish the client’s Will
message to the specified topics if the client has an unexpected
disconnection.
setWillMessage: The Will message to send. Defaults to a zero length message.
setWillQos : Sets the quality of service to use for the Will message. Defaults
to QoS.AT_MOST_ONCE.
setWillRetain: Set to true if you want the Will to be published with the retain
option.
setVersion: Set to “3.1.1” to use MQTT version 3.1.1. Otherwise defaults to the
3.1 protocol version.
Connection will automatically reconnect and re-establish messaging session
if any network error occurs. You can control how often the reconnect
is attempted and define maximum number of attempts of reconnects using
the following methods:
setConnectAttemptsMax : The maximum number of reconnect attempts before an errorsetReconnectAttemptsMax : The maximum number of reconnect attempts before an errorsetReconnectDelay : How long to wait in ms before the first reconnectsetReconnectDelayMax : The maximum amount of time in ms to wait betweensetReconnectBackOffMultiplier : The Exponential backoff be used between reconnectYou can adjust some socket options by using the following methods:
setReceiveBufferSize : Sets the size of the internal socket receive
buffer. Defaults to 65536 (64k)
setSendBufferSize : Sets the size of the internal socket send buffer.
Defaults to 65536 (64k)
setTrafficClass : Sets traffic class or type-of-service octet in the IP
header for packets sent from the transport. Defaults to 8 which
means the traffic should be optimized for throughput.
If you want slow down the read or write rate of your connections, use
the following methods:
setMaxReadRate : Sets the maximum bytes per second that this transport will
receive data at. This setting throttles reads so that the rate is not exceeded.
Defaults to 0 which disables throttling.
setMaxWriteRate : Sets the maximum bytes per second that this transport will
send data at. This setting throttles writes so that the rate is not exceeded.
Defaults to 0 which disables throttling.
If you want to connect over SSL/TLS instead of TCP, use an “ssl://” or
“tls://” URI prefix instead of “tcp://” for the host field. For finer
grained control of which algorithm is used. Supported protocol values are:
ssl:// - Use the JVM default version of the SSL algorithm.sslv*:// - Use a specific SSL version where * is a versionsslv3tls:// - Use the JVM default version of the TLS algorithm.tlsv*:// - Use a specific TLS version where * is a versiontlsv1.1The client will use the default JVM SSLContext which is configured via JVM
system properties unless you configure the MQTT instance using the
setSslContext method.
SSL connections perform blocking operations against internal thread pool
unless you call the setBlockingExecutor method to configure that executor
they will use instead.
A HawtDispatch dispatch queue is used
to synchronize access to the connection. If an explicit queue is not
configured via the setDispatchQueue method, then a new queue will be created
for the connection. Setting an explicit queue might be handy if you want
multiple connection to share the same queue for synchronization.
The MQTT.connectBlocking method establishes a connection and provides you a connection
with an blocking API.
BlockingConnection connection = mqtt.blockingConnection();
connection.connect();
Publish messages to a topic using the publish method:
connection.publish("foo", "Hello".getBytes(), QoS.AT_LEAST_ONCE, false);
You can subscribe to multiple topics using the the subscribe method:
Topic[] topics = {new Topic("foo", QoS.AT_LEAST_ONCE)};
byte[] qoses = connection.subscribe(topics);
Then receive and acknowledge consumption of messages using the receive, and ack
methods:
Message message = connection.receive();
System.out.println(message.getTopic());
byte[] payload = message.getPayload();
// process the message then:
message.ack();
Finally to disconnect:
connection.disconnect();
The MQTT.connectFuture method establishes a connection and provides you a connection
with an futures style API. All operations against the connection are non-blocking and
return the result via a Future.
FutureConnection connection = mqtt.futureConnection();
Future<Void> f1 = connection.connect();
f1.await();
Future<byte[]> f2 = connection.subscribe(new Topic[]{new Topic(utf8("foo"), QoS.AT_LEAST_ONCE)});
byte[] qoses = f2.await();
// We can start future receive..
Future<Message> receive = connection.receive();
// send the message..
Future<Void> f3 = connection.publish("foo", "Hello".getBytes(), QoS.AT_LEAST_ONCE, false);
// Then the receive will get the message.
Message message = receive.await();
message.ack();
Future<Void> f4 = connection.disconnect();
f4.await();
The MQTT.connectCallback method establishes a connection and provides you a connection with
an callback style API. This is the most complex to use API style, but can provide the best
performance. The future and blocking APIs use the callback api under the covers. All
operations on the connection are non-blocking and results of an operation are passed to
callback interfaces you implement.
Example:
final CallbackConnection connection = mqtt.callbackConnection();
connection.listener(new Listener() {
public void onDisconnected() {
}
public void onConnected() {
}
public void onPublish(UTF8Buffer topic, Buffer payload, Runnable ack) {
// You can now process a received message from a topic.
// Once process execute the ack runnable.
ack.run();
}
public void onFailure(Throwable value) {
connection.close(null); // a connection failure occured.
}
})
connection.connect(new Callback<Void>() {
public void onFailure(Throwable value) {
result.failure(value); // If we could not connect to the server.
}
// Once we connect..
public void onSuccess(Void v) {
// Subscribe to a topic
Topic[] topics = {new Topic("foo", QoS.AT_LEAST_ONCE)};
connection.subscribe(topics, new Callback<byte[]>() {
public void onSuccess(byte[] qoses) {
// The result of the subcribe request.
}
public void onFailure(Throwable value) {
connection.close(null); // subscribe failed.
}
});
// Send a message to a topic
connection.publish("foo", "Hello".getBytes(), QoS.AT_LEAST_ONCE, false, new Callback<Void>() {
public void onSuccess(Void v) {
// the pubish operation completed successfully.
}
public void onFailure(Throwable value) {
connection.close(null); // publish failed.
}
});
// To disconnect..
connection.disconnect(new Callback<Void>() {
public void onSuccess(Void v) {
// called once the connection is disconnected.
}
public void onFailure(Throwable value) {
// Disconnects never fail.
}
});
}
});
Every connection has a HawtDispatch dispatch queue
which it uses to process IO events for the socket. The dispatch queue is an Executor that
provides serial execution of IO and processing events and is used to ensure synchronized
access of connection.
The callbacks will be executing the dispatch queue associated with the connection so
it safe to use the connection from the callback but you MUST NOT perform any blocking
operations within the callback. If you need to perform some processing which MAY block, you
must send it to another thread pool for processing. Furthermore, if another thread needs to
interact with the connection it can only do it by using a Runnable submitted to the
connection’s dispatch queue.
Example of executing a Runnable on the connection’s dispatch queue:
connection.getDispatchQueue().execute(new Runnable(){
public void run() {
connection.publish( ..... );
}
});