MQTT-on-Pulsar (aka MoP) is developed to support MQTT protocol natively on Apache Pulsar. Currently, only MQTT 3.1.1 supported.
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Clone the MoP project from GitHub to your local.
git clone https://github.com/streamnative/mop.git cd mop
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Build the project.
mvn clean install -DskipTests
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The NAR file can be found at this location.
./mqtt-impl/target/pulsar-protocol-handler-mqtt-${version}.nar
Configure the Pulsar broker to run the MoP protocol handler as a plugin by adding configurations to the Pulsar configuration file, such as broker.conf
or standalone.conf
.
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Set the configuration of the MoP protocol handler.
Add the following properties and set their values in the Pulsar configuration file, such as
conf/broker.conf
orconf/standalone.conf
.Property Suggested value Default value messagingProtocols
mqtt null protocolHandlerDirectory
Location of MoP NAR file ./protocols Example
messagingProtocols=mqtt protocolHandlerDirectory=./protocols
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Set the MQTT server listeners.
Example
mqttListeners=mqtt://127.0.0.1:1883 advertisedAddress=127.0.0.1
The default hostname of
advertisedAddress
is InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName(). If you'd like to config this, please keep the same as Pulsar broker'sadvertisedAddress
.
After you install the MoP protocol handler to Pulsar broker, you can restart the Pulsar brokers to load the MoP protocol handler.
To use the proxy, follow the following steps. For detailed steps, refer to Deploy a cluster on bare metal.
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Prepare a ZooKeeper cluster.
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Initialize the cluster metadata.
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Prepare a BookKeeper cluster.
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Copy the
pulsar-protocol-handler-mqtt-${version}.nar
to the$PULSAR_HOME/protocols
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Start the Pulsar broker.
Here is an example of the Pulsar broker configuration.
messagingProtocols=mqtt protocolHandlerDirectory=./protocols brokerServicePort=6651 mqttListeners=mqtt://127.0.0.1:1883 advertisedAddress=127.0.0.1 mqttProxyEnabled=true mqttProxyPort=5682
There are many MQTT client that can be used to verify the MoP protocol handler, such as MQTTBox, MQTT Toolbox. You can choose a CLI tool or interface tool to verify the MoP protocol handler.
The following example shows how to verify the MoP protocol handler with FuseSource MqttClient.
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Add the dependency.
<dependency> <groupId>org.fusesource.mqtt-client</groupId> <artifactId>mqtt-client</artifactId> <version>1.16</version> </dependency>
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Publish messages and consume messages.
MQTT mqtt = new MQTT(); mqtt.setHost("127.0.0.1", 1883); BlockingConnection connection = mqtt.blockingConnection(); connection.connect(); Topic[] topics = { new Topic("persistent://public/default/my-topic", QoS.AT_LEAST_ONCE) }; connection.subscribe(topics); // publish message connection.publish("persistent://public/default/my-topic", "Hello MOP!".getBytes(), QoS.AT_LEAST_ONCE, false); // receive message Message received = connection.receive();
MoP currently supports basic
and token
authentication methods. The token
authentication method works
with any of the token based Pulsar authentication providers such as the built-in JWT provider and external token
authentication providers like biscuit-pulsar.
To use authentication for MQTT connections your Pulsar cluster must already have authentication enabled with your chosen authentication provider(s) configured.
You can then enable MQTT authentication with the following configuration properties:
mqttAuthenticationEnabled=true
mqttAuthenticationMethods=token
mqttAuthenticationMethods
can be set to a comma delimited list if you wish to enable multiple authentication providers.
MoP will attempt each in order when authenticating client connections.
With authentication enabled MoP will not allow anonymous connections currently.
Set the MQTT username and password client settings.
Set the MQTT password to the token body, currently username will be disregarded but MUST be set to some value as this is required by the MQTT specification.
MoP currently supports authorization. When authorization enabled, MoP will check the authenticated role if it has the ability to pub/sub topics, eg: When sending messages, you need to have the produce permission of the topic. When subscribing to a topic, you need to have the consume permission of the topic. You can reference here to grant permissions.
You can then enable MQTT authorization with the following configuration properties:
mqttAuthorizationEnabled=true
If MoP proxy enabled, following configuration needs to be configured and brokerClientAuthenticationParameters
should configure lookup
permission at least:
brokerClientAuthenticationPlugin=org.apache.pulsar.client.impl.auth.AuthenticationBasic
brokerClientAuthenticationParameters={"userId":"superUser","password":"superPass"}
MoP currently supports TLS transport encryption.
Generate crt and key file :
openssl genrsa 2048 > server.key
chmod 400 server.key
openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha256 -days 365 -key server.key -out server.crt
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Config mqtt broker to load tls config.
mqttListeners=mqtt+ssl://127.0.0.1:8883 mqttTlsCertificateFilePath=/xxx/server.crt mqttTlsKeyFilePath=/xxx/server.key
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Config client to load tls config.
MQTT mqtt = new MQTT(); // default tls port mqtt.setHost(URI.create("ssl://127.0.0.1:8883")); File crtFile = new File("server.crt"); Certificate certificate = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509").generateCertificate(new FileInputStream(crtFile)); KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.getDefaultType()); keyStore.load(null, null); keyStore.setCertificateEntry("server", certificate); TrustManagerFactory trustManagerFactory = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm()); trustManagerFactory.init(keyStore); SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS"); sslContext.init(null, trustManagerFactory.getTrustManagers(), null); mqtt.setSslContext(sslContext); BlockingConnection connection = mqtt.blockingConnection(); connection.connect();
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Config mqtt broker to load tls config.
mqttProxyEnable=true mqttProxyTlsEnabled=true mqttTlsCertificateFilePath=/xxx/server.crt mqttTlsKeyFilePath=/xxx/server.key
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Config client to load tls config.
MQTT mqtt = new MQTT(); // default proxy tls port mqtt.setHost(URI.create("ssl://127.0.0.1:5683")); File crtFile = new File("server.crt"); Certificate certificate = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509").generateCertificate(new FileInputStream(crtFile)); KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.getDefaultType()); keyStore.load(null, null); keyStore.setCertificateEntry("server", certificate); TrustManagerFactory trustManagerFactory = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm()); trustManagerFactory.init(keyStore); SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS"); sslContext.init(null, trustManagerFactory.getTrustManagers(), null); mqtt.setSslContext(sslContext); BlockingConnection connection = mqtt.blockingConnection(); connection.connect();
Please reference here to learn more about TLS-PSK.
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Config mqtt broker to load tls psk config.
mqttTlsPskEnabled=true mqttListeners=mqtt+ssl+psk://127.0.0.1:8884 // any string can be specified mqttTlsPskIdentityHint=alpha // identity is semicolon list of string with identity:secret format mqttTlsPskIdentity=mqtt:mqtt123
Optional configs
Config key Comment mqttTlsPskIdentityFile When you want identities in a single file with many pairs, you can config this. Identities will load from both tlsPskIdentity
andtlsPskIdentityFile
mqttTlsProtocols TLS PSK protocols, default are [ TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2 ] mqttTlsCiphers TLS PSK ciphers, default are [ TLS_ECDHE_PSK_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_PSK_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_ECDHE_PSK_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA, TLS_PSK_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, TLS_PSK_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA ] -
As current known mqtt Java client does not support TLS-PSK, it's better to verify this by
mosquitto cli
# Default with tlsv1.2 mosquitto_pub --psk-identity mqtt --psk 6d717474313233 -p 8884 -t "/a/b/c" -m "hello mqtt" # Test with tlsv1.1 mosquitto_pub --psk-identity mqtt --psk 6d717474313233 -p 8884 -t "/a/b/c" -m "hello mqtt" --tls-version tlsv1.1 # Test with tlsv1 mosquitto_pub --psk-identity mqtt --psk 6d717474313233 -p 8884 -t "/a/b/c" -m "hello mqtt" --tls-version tlsv1
- Download mosquitto with Mac version.
- The secret
mqtt123
is converted to6d717474313233
using Hex Code Converter
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Config mqtt proxy to load tls psk config.
mqttProxyEnable=true mqttProxyTlsPskEnabled=true // default tls psk port mqttProxyTlsPskPort=5684 // any string can be specified mqttTlsPskIdentityHint=alpha // identity is semicolon list of string with identity:secret format mqttTlsPskIdentity=mqtt:mqtt123
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Test with
mosquitto cli
mosquitto_pub --psk-identity mqtt --psk 6d717474313233 -p 5684 -t "/a/b/c" -m "hello mqtt"
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Add PSK identities dynamically.
You can add psk identities dynamically by REST API in proxy mode.
curl -X POST http://pulsar-broker-webservice-address:port/mop/add_psk_identity -d "identity=mqtt2:mqtt222;mqtt3:mqtt333"
For Apache Pulsar, The topic name consists of 4 parts:
<domain>://<tenant>/<namespace>/<local-name>
And /
is not allowed in the local topic name. But for the MQTT topic name can have multiple levels such as:
/a/b/c/d/e/f
MoP mapping the MQTT topic name to Pulsar topic name as follows:
- If the MQTT topic name does not start with the topic domain, MoP treats the URL encoded MQTT topic name as the Pulsar local topic name, and the default tenant and default namespace will be used to map the Pulsar topic name.
- If the MQTT topic name starts with the topic domain, MoP will treat the first level topic name as the tenant and the second level topic name as the namespace and the remaining topic name levels will be covert as the local topic name with URL encoded.
Examples:
MQTT topic name | Apache Pulsar topic name |
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/a/b/c | persistent://public/default/%2Fa%2Fb%2Fc |
a | persistent://public/default/a |
persistent://my-tenant/my-ns/a/b/c | persistent://my-tenant/my-ns/a%2Fb%2Fc |
persistent://my-tenant/my-ns/a | persistent://my-tenant/my-ns/a |
non-persistent://my-tenant/my-ns/a | non-persistent://my-tenant/my-ns/a |
non-persistent://my-tenant/my-ns/a/b/c | non-persistent://my-tenant/my-ns/a%2Fb%2Fc |
So if you want to consume messages by Pulsar Client from the topic /a/b/c
, the topic name for the Pulsar consumer should be persistent://public/default/%2Fa%2Fb%2Fc
. If you want to consume messages from a Pulsar topic by the MQTT client, use the Pulsar topic name as the MQTT topic name directly.
MoP topic supports single-level wildcard +
and multi-level wildcard #
. The topic name filter also follows the above topic name mapping rules.
- If the topic filter starts with the topic domain, MoP only filters the topic under the namespace that the topic filter provided.
- If the topic filter does not start with the topic domain, MoP only filters the topic name under the default namespace.
Examples:
MQTT topic name | Topic filter | Is match |
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/a/b/c | /a/+/c | Yes |
/a/b/c | /a/# | Yes |
/a/b/c | a/# | No |
/a/b/c | persistent://my-tenant/my-namespace//a/# | No |
/a/b/c | persistent://public/default//a/# | Yes |
persistent://public/default/a/b/c | persistent://public/default/a/# | Yes |
persistent://public/default/a/b/c | persistent://public/default/a/+/c | Yes |
persistent://public/default/a/b/c | persistent://public/default//a/+/c | No |
persistent://public/default/a/b/c | persistent://my-tenant/my-namespace/a/+/c | No |
Notice:
The default tenant and the default namespace for the MoP are configurable, by default, the default tenant is
public
and the default namespace isdefault
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MoP will uniformly output its own metrics to Prometheus.
Name | Type | Description |
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mop_active_client_count | Gauge | The active client count |
mop_total_client_count | Counter | The total client count |
mop_maximum_client_count | Counter | The maximum client count |
mop_sub_count | Gauge | The subscription count |
mop_send_count | Counter | The total send msg count |
mop_send_bytes | Counter | The total send msg in bytes |
mop_received_count | Counter | The total received msg count |
mop_received_bytes | Counter | The total received msg in bytes |
MoP can also expose metrics through the http interface. Add below configs first and then restart pulsar broker.
additionalServlets=mqtt-servlet
additionalServletDirectory=[protocolHandlerDir]
Then you can obtain mop information in json format through /mop/stats
:
curl http://pulsar-broker-webservice-address:port/mop/stats
{"cluster":"test","subscriptions":{"subs":["/a/b/c"],"count":1},"clients":{"total":1,"maximum":1,"active":0,"active_clients":[]},"namespace":"default","messages":{"received_bytes":57351,"received_count":10,"send_count":20,"send_bytes":60235},"version":"2.9.0-SNAPSHOT","tenant":"public","uptime":"46 seconds"}
Please refer here