Monday, October 09, 2017

Handling MQTT broker re-connections

Any client that connects to an MQTT broker needs the ability to handle a connection failure.

The popular Eclipse Paho library now has support for reconnects as described here - http://www.eclipse.org/paho/files/mqttdoc/MQTTAsync/html/auto_reconnect.html
Sample client code available here - https://github.com/SolaceLabs/mqtt-3.1.1-test

If you want to understand how Paho implements reconnect, then have a look at this source file - https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.java/blob/master/org.eclipse.paho.client.mqttv3/src/main/java/org/eclipse/paho/client/mqttv3/MqttAsyncClient.java

Alternatively, we can use the Spring Integration Framework that encapsulates the Paho library and provides options to configure connection retry logic. https://docs.spring.io/spring-integration/reference/html/mqtt.html


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