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MQTT Sink Connector

This connector connects to a MQTT broker and publishes data to the specified topics. SSL is supported. For information on how to create SSL keys and certificates see Security Tutorial. For the relevant configuration properties, see the MQTT sink connector configuration reference.

Tip

If you need to change the topic take a look at the RegexRouter transformation which can be used to change the topic name it is sent to the MQTT Server.

Note

This connector publishes using the Kafka topic name. If you need to publish to a different topic name use a transformation to change the topic name.

Examples

Property based example

This configuration is used typically along with standalone workers.

name=MqttSinkConnector1
connector.class=io.confluent.connect.mqtt.MqttSinkConnector
tasks.max=1
topics=< Required Configuration >
mqtt.server.uri=< Required Configuration >

Rest based example

This configuration is used typically along with distributed workers. Write the following json to connector.json, configure all of the required values, and use the command below to post the configuration to one the distributed connect worker(s). Check here for more information about the Kafka Connect Rest API

Connect Distributed REST example
{
  "config" : {
    "name" : "MqttSinkConnector1",
    "connector.class" : "io.confluent.connect.mqtt.MqttSinkConnector",
    "tasks.max" : "1",
    "topics" : "< Required Configuration >",
    "mqtt.server.uri" : "< Required Configuration >"
  }
}

Use curl to post the configuration to one of the Kafka Connect Workers. Change http://localhost:8083/ the the endpoint of one of your Kafka Connect worker(s).

Create a new connector
curl -s -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data @connector.json http://localhost:8083/connectors
Update an existing connector
curl -s -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data @connector.json http://localhost:8083/connectors/MqttSinkConnector1/config