MQTT Source connector
The MQTT Source connector is a Stateless NiFi dataflow developed by Cloudera that is running in the Kafka Connect framework. Learn about the connector, its properties, and configuration.
The MQTT Source connector consumes messages from an MQTT broker and transfers them to Kafka.
The Kafka topic this connector transfers messages to is determined by the value of the
topics
property in the configuration. This connector does not perform
record processing. The messages are transferred to Kafka as they are consumed from the MQTT
broker. TLS can be used to establish a secure connection between the connector and the MQTT
broker. The keystore and truststore files necessary for securing the connection must be
present on the cluster node that the connector runs on.
Properties and configuration
Configuration is passed to the connector in a JSON file during creation. The properties of the connector can be categorized into three groups. These are as follows:
- Common connector properties
- These are the properties of the Kafka Connect framework that are accepted by all connectors. For a comprehensive list of these properties, see the Apache Kafka documentation.
- Stateless NiFi Source properties
- These are the properties that are specific to the Stateless NiFi Source connector. All Stateless NiFi Source connectors share and accept these properties. For a comprehensive list of these properties, see the Stateless NiFi Source property reference.
- Connector/dataflow-specific properties
- These properties are unique to this specific connector. Or to be more precise, unique
to the dataflow running within the connector. These properties use the following
prefix:
For a comprehensive list of these properties, see the MQTT Source properties reference.parameter.[***CONNECTOR NAME***] Parameters:
Notes and limitations
- Required properties must be assigned a valid value even if they are not used in the particular configuration. If a required property is not used, either leave its default value, or completely remove the property from the configuration JSON.
- If a property that has a default value is completely removed from the configuration JSON, the system uses the default value.
- Properties not marked as required must be completely removed from the configuration JSON if not set.
- If the keystore-related properties are removed and an empty truststore is provided, the connector does not use TLS for connecting to the MQTT broker. TLS is used if a truststore is provided that has a key in it.
Configuration example
{
"connector.class": "org.apache.nifi.kafka.connect.StatelessNiFiSourceConnector",
"meta.smm.predefined.flow.name": "MQTT Source",
"meta.smm.predefined.flow.version": "1.0.0",
"key.converter": "org.apache.kafka.connect.storage.StringConverter",
"value.converter": "org.apache.kafka.connect.converters.ByteArrayConverter",
"tasks.max": "1",
"nexus.url": "https://repository.cloudera.com/artifactory/repo",
"extensions.directory": "/tmp/nifi-stateless-extensions",
"working.directory": "/tmp/nifi-stateless-working",
"topics": "[***KAFKA TOPIC NAME***]",
"parameter.MQTT Source Parameters:MQTT Broker URI": "tcp://[***HOST***]:[***PORT***]",
"parameter.MQTT Source Parameters:MQTT Quality of Service": "0",
"parameter.MQTT Source Parameters:MQTT Topics": "[***MQTT TOPIC NAME***]"
}
topics
- The name of the Kafka topic that the connector sends messages to.
MQTT Broker URI
- The URI of the MQTT broker. In this example, the connection is not secure. As a
result, the URI starts with
tcp://
. The port number you typically use in a case like this is1883
. If TLS is used, the URI should start withssl://
, and typically you use port number88883
. MQTT Topics
- The comma-separated list of MQTT topics that the connector fetches messages from.