luamqtt - Pure-lua MQTT v3.1.1 and v5.0 client

MQTT ( http://mqtt.org/ ) client library for Lua. MQTT is a popular network communication protocol working by "publish/subscribe" model.

This library is written in pure-lua to provide maximum portability.

Features

• Full MQTT v3.1.1 client-side support
• Full MQTT v5.0 client-side support
• Several long-living MQTT clients in one script thanks to ioloop

Documentation

See https://xhaskx.github.io/luamqtt/

Forum

See flespi forum thread

Source Code

https://github.com/xHasKx/luamqtt

Dependencies

The only main dependency is a luasocket to establishing TCP connection to the MQTT broker. Install it like this:

luarocks install luasocket

On Lua 5.1 it also depends on LuaBitOp (bit) library to perform bitwise operations. It's not listed in package dependencies, please install it manually like this:

luarocks install luabitop

luasec (SSL/TLS)

To establish secure network connection (SSL/TSL) to MQTT broker you also need luasec module, please install it manually like this:

luarocks install luasec

This stage is optional and may be skipped if you don't need the secure network connection (e.g. broker is located in your local network).

Lua versions

It's tested to work on Debian 9 GNU/Linux with Lua versions:

• Lua 5.1 ... Lua 5.4 (i.e. any modern Lua version)
• LuaJIT 2.0.0 ... LuaJIT 2.1.0 beta3
• It may also work on other Lua versions without any guarantees

Also I've successfully run it under Windows and it was ok, but installing luarock-modules may be a non-trivial task on this OS.

Installation

As the luamqtt is almost zero-dependency you have to install required Lua libraries by yourself, before using the luamqtt library:

luarocks install luasocket # optional if you will use your own connectors (see below)
luarocks install luabitop  # you don't need this for lua 5.3 and above
luarocks install luasec    # you don't need this if you don't want to use SSL connections

Then you may install the luamqtt library itself:

luarocks install luamqtt

Or for development purposes;

# development branch:
luarocks install luamqtt --dev

# or from the cloned repo:
luarocks make

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Examples

Here is a short version of examples/simple.lua:

-- load mqtt library
local mqtt = require("mqtt")

-- create MQTT client, flespi tokens info: https://flespi.com/kb/tokens-access-keys-to-flespi-platform
local client = mqtt.client{ uri = "mqtt.flespi.io", username = os.getenv("FLESPI_TOKEN"), clean = true }

-- assign MQTT client event handlers
client:on{
    connect = function(connack)
        if connack.rc ~= 0 then
            print("connection to broker failed:", connack:reason_string(), connack)
            return
        end

        -- connection established, now subscribe to test topic and publish a message after
        assert(client:subscribe{ topic="luamqtt/#", qos=1, callback=function()
            assert(client:publish{ topic = "luamqtt/simpletest", payload = "hello" })
        end})
    end,

    message = function(msg)
        assert(client:acknowledge(msg))

        -- receive one message and disconnect
        print("received message", msg)
        client:disconnect()
    end,
}

-- run ioloop for client
mqtt.run_ioloop(client)

More examples placed in examples/ directory. Also checkout tests in tests/spec/mqtt-client.lua

Also you can learn MQTT protocol by reading tests/spec/protocol4-make.lua and tests/spec/protocol4-parse.lua tests

Connectors

Connector is a network connection layer for luamqtt. There is a three standard connectors included:

• luasocket
• luasocket_ssl
• ngxsocket - for using in openresty environment

The luasocket or luasocket_ssl connector will be used by default, if not specified, according secure=true/false option per MQTT client.

In simple terms, connector is a set of functions to establish a network stream (TCP connection usually) and send/receive data through it. Every MQTT client instance may have their own connector.

And it's very simple to implement your own connector to make luamqtt works in your environment.

Bugs & contributing

Please file a GitHub issue if you found any bug.

And of course, any contribution are welcome!

Tests

To run tests in this git repo you need busted:

busted -e 'package.path="./?/init.lua;./?.lua;"..package.path' tests/spec/*.lua

There is a script to run all tests for all supported lua versions, using hererocks:

./tests/run-for-all-lua-versions.sh

Code coverage

Code coverage may be collected using luacov.

To collect code coverage stats - install luacov using luarocks and then execute:

# collect stats during tests
busted -v -e 'package.path="./?/init.lua;./?.lua;"..package.path;require("luacov.runner")(".luacov")' tests/spec/*.lua

# generate report into luacov.report.out file
luacov

MQTT version

Currently supported is:

• MQTT v3.1.1 protocol version.
• MQTT v5.0 protocol version.

Both protocols has full control packets support.

LICENSE

Standard MIT License, see LICENSE file for full text

Version bump checklist

• in file ./mqtt/const.lua: change _VERSION table field
• in file ./openwrt/make-package-without-openwrt-sources.sh: change Version: X.Y.Z-P in $PKG_ROOT/control
• in file ./openwrt/Makefile: change PKG_VERSION:=X.Y.Z and maybe PKG_RELEASE:=1
• copy file ./luamqtt-scm-1.rockspec to ./rockspecs/luamqtt-X.Y.Z-1.rockspec change local package_version = "scm", local package_version = "X.Y.Z"
• run ./tests/run-luacheck.sh and check output for errors
• run ./tests/run-markdownlint.sh and check output for errors
• run ./tests/run-for-all-lua-versions.sh and check output for errors
• run ./openwrt/make-package-without-openwrt-sources.sh and check output for errors
• run git commit, git tag vX.Y.Z
• run git push, git push --tags
• upload to LuaRocks; luarocks upload ./rockspecs/luamqtt-X.Y.Z-1.rockspec --api-key=ABCDEFGH