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

[Kevin KIN-FOO <kkinfoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

I'll change this comment later.
I do not see any programmatic constraint about this in the project as I 
am writing.
Once you merge this in Gerrit, we'll be available from LuaRocks.

Kevin

On 06/10/2014 23:08, Ian Craggs wrote:
> 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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