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Re: [paho-dev] R: R: R: Paho Java Client retransmission implementation
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Hello,
I'd like to resume this old thread about retrying the delivery of
messages published with QoS > 0 in the same MQTT connection (i.e between
two MQTT CONNECTCs).
The rationale is that the broker, to operate in a stable way, besides
limiting the rate of MQTT connections, may also have to throttle
incoming MQTT PUBLISH messages.
The scenario involves thousands of MQTT connections with clients storing
messages while they are offline.
If the network connecting these client to the Internet experiences a
temporary failure or the broker is restarted, there will be both
connection and message bursts that the broker will need to handle reliably.
Another reason for limiting the rate of connections and messages is to
prevent a DoS.
Under these circumstances, the broker might decide to drop incoming
PUBLISH messages.
For messages with QoS == 0, the broker just drops the PUBLISH message.
For messages with QoS > 0, the broker does not acknowledge the PUBLISH
message.
As far as I know, Paho does not retry the delivery of inflight (QoS > 0)
messages in the same MQTT connection and the inflight message queue
capacity is quite limited.
If the broker does not acknowledge these messages, the inflight message
queue will never be flushed and no more messages are accepted by Paho.
If the broker keeps responding to pings there is no way we can recover
from this deadlock.
One can object that rate limiting should happen at the TCP layer (for
example using iptables) but this proved to be ineffective.
Rate limiting at the tcp level is quite poor as it only works on new tcp
connections and does not allow to create granular rules. Rate limiting
at the MQTT level gives us the opportunity to create advanced logic to
limit the rate of new connections (as with tcp) but also the rate of all
other messages based on various MQTT information such as topic, clientid
or user.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.
Regards,
Cristiano
On 09/08/2012 12:20, De Alti, Cristiano wrote:
> Hi,
> It was a bug in my code. The test now succeeds. Thanks for you support.
>
> Ciao,
> Cristiano
> ________________________________________
> Da: paho-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [paho-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] per conto di Nicholas O'Leary [nick.oleary@xxxxxxxxx]
> Inviato: mercoledì 8 agosto 2012 20.07
> A: General development discussions for paho project
> Oggetto: Re: [paho-dev] R: R: Paho Java Client retransmission implementation
>
> Hi Christiano,
>
> the scenario you describe is a pretty basic one that is well covered
> by routine testing the client gets hit with - although it is always
> possible you're hitting a edge case somewhere.
>
>> Most of the time there are many messages in-flight (10-15 max).
>
> The paho client allows a maximum of 10 in-flight messages at any one time.
>
>> At the end I sleep 10 seconds before disconnecting and I check if the
>> tracking list is empty.
>> It can happen it's not empty. Thus some messages are not acknowledged.
>
> Does your test include a separate subscriber so you can confirm what
> messages are actually delivered?
>
> If you don't timeout after 10 seconds, but leave it running for longer
> do the messages eventually get acknowledged? It is possible your 10
> second timeout is not giving the client enough time to deliver all
> 1000 messages given the 10 in-flight limit.
>
> Regards,
> Nick
>
> On 8 August 2012 17:29, De Alti, Cristiano
> <Cristiano.DeAlti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dave,
>> I've slightly modified Sample.java in order to publish 1000 messages with
>> QoS = 2 on my Mosquitto broker at localhost (on Linux). There aren't any
>> other connections to the broker.
>> I'm publishing at the fastest possible rate without waiting for the
>> completion. I'm tracking the delivery tokens in a list and delete them when
>> the confirm token comes in asynchronously in the callback. Most of the time
>> there are many messages in-flight (10-15 max).
>> At the end I sleep 10 seconds before disconnecting and I check if the
>> tracking list is empty.
>> It can happen it's not empty. Thus some messages are not acknowledged (I
>> still don't know if Paho or Mosquitto drops messages or it's a bug with how
>> I track messages). I cannot imagine a more reliable connection since both
>> the broker and the client are running on localhost.
>>
>> I'm sure that TCP/IP implementations are reliable enough but brokers may
>> be not.
>>
>> I think I'll try to add the republish method to the Paho API in order to
>> allow for republishing/resubscribing at the application layer. If it works I
>> will submit the patches to you.
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Cristiano
>> ________________________________
>> Da: paho-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [paho-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] per conto
>> di Dave Locke [locke@xxxxxxxxxx]
>> Inviato: mercoledì 8 agosto 2012 17.44
>>
>> A: General development discussions for paho project
>> Oggetto: Re: [paho-dev] R: Paho Java Client retransmission implementation
>>
>>>> Do you think it would be worthwhile to add this feature to Paho?
>>
>>> We quite deliberately removed message retry from the client side, but
>>> I don't recall the full reasoning (this was >2 years ago now). That
>>> said, it does presume you are running against a 'reliable' server,
>>> which, in the context of WebSphere MQ, you are and that you have a
>>> reliable TCP connection (reliable in the sense packets don't
>>> mysteriously go missing even if the connection is fragile).
>>
>>> So, perhaps there is a place in for this behaviour in the client -
>>> Dave/Ian, can you recall why we did this?
>>
>> One of the original MQTT Java clients had retry capability built in. At
>> the time it was added to handle badly behaving TCPIP implementations on some
>> "wireless" networks (in the late 90s) . For instance a QOS 1 publish would
>> be sent but puback on occasions would never be received. This was not the
>> fault of the server but the fault of the network which never delivered the
>> publish to the server. As a result of improvements in TCPIP
>> implementations the retry logic was taken out of the Java client.
>>
>> On the assertion thatf TCPIP behaves correctly, iIf a problem occurs then
>> either the "network" informs the MQTT client or the MQTT client detects the
>> problem via the keepalive. When a problem occurs the MQTT client will tidy
>> up and alert the app the connection has been lost. When the app causes the
>> MQTT client to reconnect (after an abnormal disconnect or normal disconnect)
>> it will ensure messages that are still in-flight are delivered to the
>> requested QOS.
>>
>> Given the background are there still reasons why retry might be useful?
>>
>>
>> All the best
>> Dave Locke
>>
>> Senior Inventor, Pervasive and Advanced Messaging Technologies
>>
>> locke@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Dave Locke/UK/IBM@ibmgb
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: "Nicholas O'Leary" <nick.oleary@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: General development discussions for paho project
>> <paho-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Date: 07/08/2012 15:08
>> Subject: Re: [paho-dev] R: Paho Java Client retransmission
>> implementation
>> Sent by: paho-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>>
>>
>>> Would I wait forever? Unacknowledged messages will stay forever in
>>> internal in-memory queues and persistence?
>>
>> With that code, yes you would wait forever. There is also
>> token.waitForCompletion(timeout) if you want to block for a certain
>> period before moving on, however that still leave the message in an
>> indeterminate state and unable to be resent.
>>
>>> I might want to track the in-flight messages in the application and
>>> retransmit them if they are not acknowledged by a suitable timeout.
>>> The spec allows for this by republishing the message using the original
>>> message ID and setting the DUP flag in the MQTT PUBLISH header.
>>> However this is not possible in Paho with the public API used in
>>> Sample.java.
>>
>> Correct, the api does not expose that sort of republishing capability.
>>
>>> Do you think it would be worthwhile to add this feature to Paho?
>>
>> We quite deliberately removed message retry from the client side, but
>> I don't recall the full reasoning (this was >2 years ago now). That
>> said, it does presume you are running against a 'reliable' server,
>> which, in the context of WebSphere MQ, you are and that you have a
>> reliable TCP connection (reliable in the sense packets don't
>> mysteriously go missing even if the connection is fragile).
>>
>> So, perhaps there is a place in for this behaviour in the client -
>> Dave/Ian, can you recall why we did this?
>>
>>
>>> What would be the required effort?
>>
>> Obviously it depends on the approach taken - here are a couple options
>> off the top of my head:
>>
>> 1. it should be fairly straight forward to add some retry logic into
>> ClientState, along with a config option for a retry-timeout in
>> ConnectOptions. The client would then do the retrying under the
>> covers; the application would not need to take any further action.
>>
>> 2. Alternatively, the DeliveryToken object could have a method
>> .resend() added to it, that would resubmit the message for delivery
>> (with the duplicate flag set). So, if
>> deliveryToken.waitForCompletion(timeout) timed out, the application
>> could choose whether to resend the message.
>>
>> Option 1 means retries will just work, Option 2 gives the application
>> more control, but also more responsibility.
>>
>>
>> We would also have to consider the impact on the other clients in
>> Paho; we want to keep them feature compatible.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7 August 2012 09:36, De Alti, Cristiano
>> <Cristiano.DeAlti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi Nick,
>>> Thanks for the quick confirm.
>>> I know that the spec does not require it.
>>> More questions:
>>> 1) What happens if we publish a message with QoS>0 and wait for a
>>> confirm that never comes in (taken from Sample.java):
>>>
>>> public void publish(String topicName, int qos, byte[] payload)
>>> throws MqttException {
>>>
>>> // Connect to the server
>>> client.connect();
>>> log("Connected to "+brokerUrl);
>>>
>>> // Get an instance of the topic
>>> MqttTopic topic = client.getTopic(topicName);
>>>
>>> MqttMessage message = new MqttMessage(payload);
>>> message.setQos(qos);
>>>
>>> // Publish the message
>>> log("Publishing at: "+System.currentTimeMillis()+ " to topic
>>> \""+topicName+"\" qos "+qos);
>>> MqttDeliveryToken token = topic.publish(message);
>>>
>>> // Wait until the message has been delivered to the server
>>> token.waitForCompletion();
>>>
>>> // Disconnect the client
>>> client.disconnect();
>>> log("Disconnected");
>>> }
>>>
>>> Would I wait forever? Unacknowledged messages will stay forever in
>>> internal in-memory queues and persistence?
>>>
>>> 2) Alternatively I might decide to not wait for completion and track the
>>> confirms asynchronously in the callback:
>>> public void deliveryComplete(MqttDeliveryToken token) {
>>> // Called when a message has completed delivery to the
>>> // server. The token passed in here is the same one
>>> // that was returned in the original call to publish.
>>> // This allows applications to perform asychronous
>>> // delivery without blocking until delivery completes.
>>>
>>> // This sample demonstrates synchronous delivery, by
>>> // using the token.waitForCompletion() call in the main
>>> thread.
>>> }
>>>
>>> I might want to track the in-flight messages in the application and
>>> retransmit them if they are not acknowledged by a suitable timeout.
>>> The spec allows for this by republishing the message using the original
>>> message ID and setting the DUP flag in the MQTT PUBLISH header.
>>> However this is not possible in Paho with the public API used in
>>> Sample.java.
>>>
>>> We currently use our own MQTT client implementation but we would like to
>>> switch to Paho because it will be actively maintained.
>>> However our client autonomously performs retries.
>>> Do you think it would be worthwhile to add this feature to Paho? What
>>> would be the required effort?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ciao,
>>> Cristiano
>>> ________________________________________
>>> Da: paho-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [paho-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] per
>>> conto di Nicholas O'Leary [nick.oleary@xxxxxxxxx]
>>> Inviato: martedì 7 agosto 2012 10.03
>>> A: General development discussions for paho project
>>> Oggetto: Re: [paho-dev] Paho Java Client retransmission implementation
>>>
>>> Hi Cristiano,
>>>
>>> no, the paho client does not retry unacknowledged messages (except on
>>> reconnect).
>>>
>>> Clients are not required to retry delivery of messages.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Nick
>>>
>>> On 7 August 2012 08:12, De Alti, Cristiano
>>> <Cristiano.DeAlti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Does Paho Java Client implement the retransmission of unacknowledged
>>>> messages sent with QoS level 1 or 2?
>>>> I'm browsing the code but I cannot find any references to a retry
>>>> mechanism.
>>>>
>>>> Ciao,
>>>> Cristiano
>>>>
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