AMQP Adapter Client for Java

Eclipse Hono™ comes with a Java client for the AMQP adapter. It is intended for the implementation of (prototype) devices, (protocol) gateways and/or (end-to-end) tests. The client is based on Eclipse Vert.x.

The client is represented by the AmqpAdapterClient class in the hono-client-device-amqp module. Instances can be created using the create(HonoConnection) factory method.

The client provides methods for each of the following operations:

• Getting a receiver for receiving command & control messages
  (via the AmqpAdapterClient createCommandConsumer / createDeviceSpecificCommandConsumer methods)
• Sending a telemetry message
  (via the inherited TelemetrySender sendTelemetry method)
• Sending an event message
  (via the inherited EventSender sendEvent method)
• Sending a response to a previously received command
  (via the inherited CommandResponder sendCommandResponse method)

Please refer to the javadoc of the classes for details.

For examples of how to use the client, see the example implementation in the AmqpExampleDevice class.

Usage in a Gateway

There are two ways to subscribe to commands for use in a gateway:

1. Gateway subscribing for commands for a specific device: The gateway subscribes individually for each connected device by creating a command consumer for the specific device.
2. Gateway subscribing for commands for all its devices: The gateway subscribes for commands sent to all the different devices that the gateway acts on behalf of by creating a command consumer that is not scoped on a specific device.

Subscribing for all devices does not work if multiple instances of the gateway are running at the same time, because a command is only sent to one receiver, and this may be an instance that has no connection to the device. On the other hand, subscribing for a specific device once it connects to the gateway instance (and closing the subscription once it disconnects) may not work for device-oriented protocols that are not connection-based.