AWS IoT Device SDK C  202009.00
SDK for connecting to AWS IoT from a device using embedded C.
MQTT

How to migrate an MQTT application from v3 to 202009.00.

The MQTT library has been refactored in 202009.00 to use only a single thread, and therefore no longer has any thread synchronization dependencies. New features such as persistent session support and QoS 2 publish delivery have also been added.

The features of the MQTT libraries in v3 and 202009.00 are defined by the common MQTT 3.1.1 spec; therefore, the two versions are similar.

Removed features

The following features were present in v3, but removed in 202009.00:

  • Auto-reconnect
    Version 3 has an auto-reconnect feature triggered through a call to aws_iot_mqtt_yield. In version 202009.00, the auto-reconnect feature has been removed.
    Workaround: When a version 202009.00 API call does not return MQTTSuccess, the application should re-establish the underlying transport connection and then call MQTT_Connect. We recommend that the application employ an exponential backoff strategy when re-establishing connections as explained in the AWS blog for Exponential Back off and Jitter.
  • Thread support
    Version 3 has an _ENABLE_THREAD_SUPPORT_ macro for multi-threading use cases. Version 202009.00 does not spawn any threads and therefore, the macro _ENABLE_THREAD_SUPPORT_ has been removed.

Data Types

The following table lists equivalent data types in v3 and 202009.00.

Version 3 Version 202009.00 Notes
enum QoS MQTTQoS_t MQTT Quality of service.
AWS_IoT_Client MQTTContext_t MQTT connection handle.
IoT_Publish_Message_Params MQTTPublishInfo_t Parameters of an MQTT publish.
IoT_MQTT_Will_Options MQTTPublishInfo_t Optional Will parameter of an MQTT connect.
IoT_Client_Connect_Params MQTTConnectInfo_t Parameters of an MQTT connect.
IoT_Client_Init_Params None The members of this struct in v3 handled setup of the network connection.
This is handled outside of the MQTT library in 202009.00.
pApplicationHandler_t MQTTEventCallback_t Function pointer of application callback to receive incoming data.

Functions

The following table lists equivalent API functions in v3 and 202009.00. These functions are the API functions declared in:

Version 3 Version 202009.00 Notes
aws_iot_mqtt_init MQTT_Init
aws_iot_mqtt_free None 202009.00 does not allocate any memory and therefore, has nothing to free.
aws_iot_mqtt_connect MQTT_Connect
aws_iot_mqtt_publish MQTT_Publish
aws_iot_mqtt_subscribe MQTT_Subscribe
aws_iot_mqtt_resubscribe None Function removed because auto-reconnect was removed.
aws_iot_mqtt_unsubscribe MQTT_Unsubscribe
aws_iot_mqtt_disconnect MQTT_Disconnect
aws_iot_mqtt_yield MQTT_ProcessLoop MQTT_ReceiveLoop is the equivalent function without any keep-alive mechanism.
aws_iot_mqtt_attempt_reconnect None Function removed because auto-reconnect was removed.