MQTT NIO
A Swift NIO based MQTT 3.1.1 client supporting NIOTransportServices (required for iOS), WebSocket connections and TLS through both NIOSSL and NIOTransportServices.
MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) is a lightweight messaging protocol that was developed by IBM and first released in 1999. It uses the pub/sub pattern and translates messages between devices, servers, and applications. It is commonly used in Internet of things (IoT) technologies.
Usage
Create a client and connect to the MQTT broker.
let client = MQTTClient(
host: "mqtt.eclipse.org",
port: 1883,
identifier: "My Client",
eventLoopGroupProvider: .createNew
)
try client.connect().wait()Subscribe to a topic and add a publish listener to report publish messages from the broker.
let subscription = MQTTSubscribeInfo(
topicFilter: "my-topics",
qos: .atLeastOnce
)
try client.subscribe(to: [subscription]).wait()
client.addPublishListener("My Listener") { result in
switch result {
case .success(let publish):
var buffer = publish.payload
let string = buffer.readString(length: buffer.readableBytes)
print(string)
case .failure(let error):
print("Error while receiving PUBLISH event")
}
}Publish to a topic.
let payload = ByteBufferAllocator().buffer(string: "This is the Test payload")
try client.publish(
to: "my-topics",
payload: payload,
qos: .atLeastOnce
).wait()TLS
MQTT NIO supports TLS connections. You can enable this through the Configuration provided at initialization. SetConfiguration.useSSL to true and provide your SSL certificates via the Configuration.tlsConfiguration struct. For example to connect to the mosquitto test server test.mosquitto.org on port 8884 you need to provide their root certificate and your own certificate. They provide details on the website https://test.mosquitto.org/ on how to generate these.
let rootCertificate = try NIOSSLCertificate.fromPEMBytes([UInt8](mosquittoCertificateText.utf8))
let myCertificate = try NIOSSLCertificate.fromPEMBytes([UInt8](myCertificateText.utf8))
let myPrivateKey = try NIOSSLPrivateKey(bytes: [UInt8](myPrivateKeyText.utf8), format: .pem)
let tlsConfiguration: TLSConfiguration? = TLSConfiguration.forClient(
trustRoots: .certificates(rootCertificate),
certificateChain: myCertificate.map { .certificate($0) },
privateKey: .privateKey(myPrivateKey)
)
let client = MQTTClient(
host: "test.mosquitto.org",
port: 8884,
identifier: "MySSLClient",
eventLoopGroupProvider: .createNew,
configuration: .init(useSSL: true, tlsConfiguration: .niossl(tlsConfiguration)),
)WebSockets
MQTT also supports Web Socket connections. Set Configuration.useWebSockets to true and set the URL path in Configuration.webSocketsURLPath to enable these.
NIO Transport Services
On macOS and iOS you can use the NIO Transport Services library (NIOTS) and Apple's Network.framework for communication with the MQTT broker. If you don't provide an eventLoopGroup or a TLSConfigurationType then this is the default for both platforms. If you do provide either of these then the library will base it's decision on whether to use NIOTS or NIOSSL on what you provide. Provide a MultiThreadedEventLoopGroup or NIOSSL.TLSConfiguration and the client will use NIOSSL. Provide a NIOTSEventLoopGroup or TSTLSConfiguration and the client will use NIOTS. If you provide a MultiThreadedEventLoopGroup and a TSTLSConfiguration then the client will throw an error. If you are running on iOS you should always choose NIOTS.
AWS IoT
The MQTT client can be used to connect to AWS IoT brokers. You can use both a WebSocket connection authenticated using AWS Signature V4 and a standard connection using a X.509 client certificate. If you are using a X.509 certificate make sure you update the attached role to allow your client id to connect and which topics you can subscribe, publish to.
If you are using an AWS Signature V4 authenticated WebSocket connection you can use the V4 signer from SotoCore to sign your initial request as follows
import SotoSignerV4
let host = "MY_AWS_IOT_ENDPOINT"
let port = 443
let headers = HTTPHeaders([("host", host)])
let signer = AWSSigner(
credentials: StaticCredential(accessKeyId: "MYACCESSKEY", secretAccessKey: "MYSECRETKEY"),
name: "iotdata",
region: "eu-west-1"
)
let signedURL = signer.signURL(
url: URL(string: "https://\(host):\(port)/mqtt")!,
method: .GET,
headers: headers,
body: .none,
expires: .minutes(30)
)
let requestURI = "/mqtt?\(signedURL.query!)"
let client = MQTTClient(
host: host,
port: port,
identifier: "MyAWSClient",
eventLoopGroupProvider: .createNew,
configuration: .init(useSSL: true, useWebSockets: true, webSocketURLPath: requestUri)
)You can find out more about connecting to AWS brokers here