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MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol

You're reading from   MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol Send and receive messages with the MQTT protocol for your IoT solutions.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287815
Length 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Preface 1. Lightweight Messaging with MQTT 3.1.1 and Mosquitto FREE CHAPTER 2. Securing an MQTT Mosquitto Server 3. Controlling a Drone with Python 4. Interacting with Sensors in Java 5. Controlling Home Automation in JavaScript 6. Interacting with Actuators in Swift A. Exersise Answers

Processing the received messages in JavaScript


The onMessageArrived function receives a Paho.MQTT.Message instance in the message argument. The code prints a message to the console log indicating that a message has arrived with the destination topic and the payload string included in the message.destinationName and message.payloadString attributes.

Then, the code checks whether message.destionationName starts with APP.HomeAutomation.Manager.ledResultBaseTopic to make sure that the message's destination topic is the one defined for the results of the commands related to LEDs.

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In this case, the code only subscribes to the topic filters that we defined for publishing messages with the results of the commands related to LEDs. However, we include this code to understand how we should check the message.destinationName value when we subscribe to multiple topics that have different goals.

Then, the code retrieves the LED ID from the message's topic and saves it in the ledNumber variable. The code...

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