MQTT action

The action is used for publish output message into an MQTT server.

Property name Optional Description
server false The broker address of the MQTT server, such as tcp://127.0.0.1:1883
topic false The MQTT topic, such as analysis/result
clientId true The client id for MQTT connection. If not specified, an uuid will be used
protocolVersion true MQTT protocol version. 3.1 (also refer as MQTT 3) or 3.1.1 (also refer as MQTT 4). If not specified, the default value is 3.1.
qos true The QoS for message delivery. Only int type value 0 or 1 or 2.
username true The username for the connection.
password true The password for the connection.
certificationPath true The certification path. It can be an absolute path, or a relative path. If it is an relative path, then the base path is where you excuting the kuiperd command. For example, if you run bin/kuiperd from /var/kuiper, then the base path is /var/kuiper; If you run ./kuiperd from /var/kuiper/bin, then the base path is /var/kuiper/bin.
privateKeyPath true The private key path. It can be either absolute path, or relative path, which is similar to use of certificationPath.
rootCaPath true The location of root ca path. It can be an absolute path, or a relative path, which is similar to use of certificationPath.
insecureSkipVerify true If InsecureSkipVerify is true, TLS accepts any certificate presented by the server and any host name in that certificate. In this mode, TLS is susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks. The default value is false. The configuration item can only be used with TLS connections.
retained true If retained is true,The broker stores the last retained message and the corresponding QoS for that topic.The default value is false.
connectionSelector true reuse the connection to mqtt broker. more info

Below is sample configuration for connecting to Azure IoT Hub by using SAS authentication.

  1.     {
  2.       "mqtt": {
  3.         "server": "ssl://xyz.azure-devices.net:8883",
  4.         "topic": "devices/demo_001/messages/events/",
  5.         "protocolVersion": "3.1.1",
  6.         "qos": 1,
  7.         "clientId": "demo_001",
  8.         "username": "xyz.azure-devices.net/demo_001/?api-version=2018-06-30",
  9.         "password": "SharedAccessSignature sr=*******************",
  10.         "retained": false
  11.       }
  12.     }

Below is another sample configuration for connecting to AWS IoT by using certification and privte key auth.

  1.     {
  2.       "mqtt": {
  3.         "server": "ssl://xyz-ats.iot.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:8883",
  4.         "topic": "devices/result",
  5.         "qos": 1,
  6.         "clientId": "demo_001",
  7.         "certificationPath": "keys/d3807d9fa5-certificate.pem",
  8.         "privateKeyPath": "keys/d3807d9fa5-private.pem.key", 
  9.         "insecureSkipVerify": false,
  10.         "retained": false
  11.       }
  12.     }

Dynamic Topic

If the result data contains the topic name, we can use it as the property of the mqtt action to achieve dynamic topic support. Assume the selected data has a field named mytopic, we can use data template syntax to set it as the property value for topic as below:

  1.     {
  2.       "mqtt": {
  3.         "server": "ssl://xyz-ats.iot.us-east-1.amazonaws.com:8883",
  4.         "topic": "{{.mytopic}}",
  5.         "qos": 1,
  6.         "clientId": "demo_001",
  7.         "certificationPath": "keys/d3807d9fa5-certificate.pem",
  8.         "privateKeyPath": "keys/d3807d9fa5-private.pem.key",
  9.         "retained": false
  10.       }
  11.     }