MQTT connection with tokio - rust

Question

I'm trying to create an MQTT connection with tokio and the codec provided in the mqtt_v5 crate. My code does not compile, and I don't understand why. Here is what I have written so far, the send code might not be correct.
use tokio::net::TcpStream;
use tokio_util::codec::Framed;
use tokio_util::codec::Decoder;
use std::net::SocketAddrV4;
use mqtt_v5::types::Packet as MqttPacket;
use mqtt_v5::codec::MqttCodec;
use futures_sink::Sink;
use futures_core::stream::Stream;
struct MqttConn {
inner: Framed<TcpStream, MqttCodec>,
}
impl MqttConn {
async fn new(addr: SocketAddrV4) -> MqttConn {
let tcp = TcpStream::connect(addr).await.expect("cannot connect to mqtt");
MqttConn { inner: MqttCodec::new().framed(tcp) }
}
async fn handle(&self, handler: &dyn Fn(&MqttConn, MqttPacket) -> ()) {
while let Some(p) = self.inner.next().await {
handler(self, p)
}
}
async fn send(&self, p: MqttPacket) {
self.inner.start_send(p);
}
}
I get these errors from the compiler:
error[E0599]: no method named `framed` found for struct `MqttCodec` in the current scope
--> src/mqtt.rs:17:44
|
17 | MqttConn { inner: MqttCodec::new().framed(tcp) }
| ^^^^^^ method not found in `MqttCodec`
|
= help: items from traits can only be used if the trait is in scope
= note: the following trait is implemented but not in scope; perhaps add a `use` for it:
`use tokio_util::codec::decoder::Decoder;`
error[E0599]: no method named `next` found for struct `Framed<tokio::net::TcpStream, MqttCodec>` in the current scope
--> src/mqtt.rs:21:40
|
21 | while let Some(p) = self.inner.next().await {
| ^^^^ method not found in `Framed<tokio::net::TcpStream, MqttCodec>`
error[E0599]: no method named `start_send` found for struct `Framed<tokio::net::TcpStream, MqttCodec>` in the current scope
--> src/mqtt.rs:27:20
|
27 | self.inner.start_send(p);
| ^^^^^^^^^^ method not found in `Framed<tokio::net::TcpStream, MqttCodec>`
warning: unused import: `tokio_util::codec::Decoder`
--> src/mqtt.rs:3:5
|
3 | use tokio_util::codec::Decoder;
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
warning: unused import: `futures_sink::Sink`
--> src/mqtt.rs:7:5
|
7 | use futures_sink::Sink;
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The compiler says that the Decoder trait is not in scope, but I use it. If I try the suggested import I find that the module tokio_util::codec::decoder is private. Based on the source tokio_util::codec::decoder::Decoder is reexported as tokio_util::codec::Decoder. Also if I read the docs correctly, Framed should implement Sink and Stream therefore it should have the next and start_send methods.
Relevant lines from Cargo.toml:
[dependencies]
tokio = { version = "1.0.1", features = ["full"] }
tokio-util = { version = "0.6", features = ["full"] }
futures-sink = "0.3.9"
futures-core = "0.3.9"
mqtt-v5 = "0.1.1"
How can I get this to compile?

Answer 1

You have a number of library incompatibilities that are causing some less-than-obvious error messages.
mqtt-v5 depends on tokio-util^0.3, which was written for tokio 0.2, not 1.0. You'll need to roll back to tokio 0.2 and tokio-util 0.3. This should fix the problem with Decoder and Sink.
Additionally, the Stream trait only provides poll_next(), which is the task-level stream method. next() is provided by the StreamExt trait, along with other convenience methods similar to those found in Iterator.