I try to understand and implement the MQTT-Client for node.js, which can be found at: http://jahbromo.blogspot.de/2011/12/client-mqttt-javascript.html
When I publish playloads lower than 128 bytes there's no problem and the message gets directed correctly, but when the payload is larger, node.js prints out "Connection closed by broker" right after the publishing. Because i'm relatively new to websockets and node.js I don't understand why this node.js-server-implemenatation mentioned above can't handle playloads larger than 128 bytes.
Because I need to send larger payloads, it would be great if someone could help me to increase the limitation.
Thanks.
You'll notice down in the limitations of the code you link to (which is actually a modified version of https://github.com/yilun/node_mqtt_client ):
Can not handle payloads larger than 128 byte.
This is a limitation of the client library, not of MQTT.
To add support for larger payloads, you need to implement full "remaining length" support for the PUBLISH packet as described in the spec: http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/webservices/ws-mqtt/mqtt-v3r1.html#fixed-header
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Is there a way to log or view the actual bytestream being sent to the server when using either the grpc or #grpc/grpc-js clients in NodeJS?
I'm working with an opaque GRPC server that accepts my bytes when I stream them, but doesn't do what it's supposed to do. I'd like to view the actual bytes being sent to the server, as we suspect it's a problem with how the GRPC libraries are serializing 64 bit integers.
The GRPC_VERBOSITY=debug GRPC_TRACE=tcp,http,api,http2_stream_state env variables for the native grpc module haven't been helpful in this specific case -- they show part of one byte stream, but not the full byte-stream.
Even a "here's the place in the code where the serialization happens" would be useful.
The GRPC_VERBOSITY setting there is correct. If you are using TLS, you can see all of the data that is sent and received with GRPC_TRACE=secure_endpoint. If you are using plaintext connections, you can instead see it with GRPC_TRACE=tcp. In both cases, you will need to pick the data you are looking for out of the HTTP/2 framing, and it may show compressed messages, which would be essentially impossible to interpret.
Alternatively, if your setup allows it, you may want to try Wireshark. It should be able to handle the HTTP/2 framing for you, and I believe it has plugins to handle gRPC traffic specifically.
I have a mini microservice project using NodeJS as backend and MQTT as the media for communicating between services. and I have a service that suppose to send an excel file to another service. Is there any way for MQTT to publish a file?
So far I only managed to send it as binary-data but had no idea what to do with that, or is there any way to recreate a file from binary-data in NodeJS?
This stackoverflow thread talks about MQTT byte limits.
The length of the actual topic string is at most 65536 bytes. This is a limit imposed by the mqtt spec, you can't change it. It is also worth noting that the topic is encoded with utf-8, so you may have less than 65536 characters available. The payload of the message is limited to 268,435,456 bytes. Again, this is defined by the spec.
If you exceed these limits, you need to break your file in chunks and use Base64 algorithm to encode them to ASCII. Make sure you send a hash of the whole file to check and guarantee that your file is consistent in the other side of the wire, after restoration.
This article does something similar using Python, in case you want to see some code. Hope it helps!
A file is just binary data and MQTT payloads are just binary data.
If you want to include meta data, e.g. a file name then you are going to have to come up with a data format to encode the filename along with the files content. That can be done any number of ways, be it in the topic you publish or by creating a data structure that includes the filename and the contents of the file.
since mqtt payload has limit, as #Fabio Manzano cited above, and it is impossible to publish binary data from even a small-sized file, i think i've managed to make this work by breaking it down into chunks (the binary data) and publish them separately. then merge them all back again when it finishes sending the last chunk.
and then do like what this thread suggests:
Writing image to local server
i've tried it and it succeed. thank you for the responses.
I see the headers present in both the request and the response
Sec-WebSocket-Extensions:permessage-deflate
and yet, the data sent over the socket is still the same( verified for large and small size data).
Please clarify the following for me:
Data sent in the frames of the socket should be compressed right?
Will i be able to see the compressed data on the developer tools of chrome under the frames tab of the socket ?
Yes, unless the original message size is below 1024 bytes (which is the default threshold that engine.io uses to determine if a message should be compressed or not).
It doesn't look like it (it's a protocol option so I think that Chrome will perform the decompression transparently, just like compressed HTTP responses).
So I want to transfer sound bytes over a websocket from a phone to a server. However according to http://crossbar.io/docs/Features crossbar seems to only implement json and msgpack. Can I stil transfer binary messages over crossbar using some other way?
Also multiple crossbar clients (for eg )seems to only provide json and webpack as de/serialization formats. Am I missing something?
WAMP is primarily intended for transmission of messages, not large (binary) payloads. For small chunks you can encode the audio so that it can be part of a regular WAMP payload. For an example of this for a webcam image, see the Tessel camera example - https://github.com/crossbario/crossbarexamples/tree/master/iotcookbook/device/tessel/camera. This works fine in principle, though there is, of course, the encoding/decoding overhead.
I have just started using node.js, I'm running a node server with sockets.io and i need to send a buffer of bytes to the client.
I understand that this can be done by first translating the byte buffer to base64 and sending that, then translating it back on the client side. but i was wondering if there is a more elegant way of getting the byte stream to the client.
Socket.IO 1.0 Now supports Binary data transfer. Please have a look here . You can use Blob, ArrayBuffer and File.
https://github.com/binaryjs/binaryjs can be a solution. base 64 have ~30% of overhead size, so if you need to transfer large amount of data it will become inefficient.
There is also socket.io-stream https://github.com/nkzawa/socket.io-stream
It is little difficult to use binaryjs with socket.io.
Try deliveryjs
https://github.com/liamks/Delivery.js
which provides the means of communication between clients and server via socket.io.
However this module also uses the base64 conversion, which is a drawback.