Re: [paho-dev] Lua client: Changing connect method

[Ian Craggs <icraggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All sounds good to me (not knowing much about Lua).

Oh - the client identifier no longer has the 23 character limit in MQTT 
3.1.1.

Ian

On 10/06/2014 04:53 PM, Kevin KIN-FOO wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think we should change connect method to stick better whith MQTT 3.1 
> [1].
>
> As I am writing this method method looks like:
>
>   function MQTT.client:connect(                                     -- 
> Public API
>     identifier,    -- string: MQTT client identifier (maximum 23 
> characters)
>     will_topic,    -- string: Last will and testament topic
>     will_qos,      -- byte:   Last will and testament Quality Of Service
>     will_retain,   -- byte:   Last will and testament retention status
>     will_message)  -- string: Last will and testament message
>
> I think it should follow specs and include authentication parameters.
> Result is:
>
>   function MQTT.client:connect(                                     -- 
> Public API
>     identifier,    -- string: MQTT client identifier (maximum 23 
> characters)
>     will_topic,    -- string: Last will and testament topic
>     will_message,  -- string: Last will and testament message
>     user_name,     -- string: User who is connecting
>     password,      -- string: Password corresponding to the user who 
> is connecting
>     will_qos,      -- byte:   Last will and testament Quality Of Service
>     will_retain)   -- byte:   Last will and testament retention status
>
> Even better allowing to provide parameter within a table.
> It avoid passing silly "nil" while connecting.
> So users could type:
>
>   client:connect({
>     identifier = id,
>     will_topic = will,
>     will_retain = 'So long',
>   })
>
> Looking forward for comments.
>
> Kevin
>
> [1] 
> http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/webservices/ws-mqtt/mqtt-v3r1.html#connect
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Ian Craggs
icraggs@xxxxxxxxxx                 IBM United Kingdom
Paho Project Lead; Committer on Mosquitto