Publish Using MQTT Test Step

About Publish Using MQTT test step

Use this test step to simulate the actions of an MQTT publisher. The test step connects to the MQTT broker and sends the message to it.

Edit Publish Using MQTT test step

You can modify the settings of a test step in its editor:

MQTT Testing in ReadyAPI: Publish test step

Connection to MQTT server

Connection

Choose a configured connection to the broker from the drop-down list, or select <New Connection...> to create a new connection. Click Configure to customize properties of the selected connection in the Configure Connection dialog.

Published message

Topic

Enter the message topic. Only clients subscribed to this topic will receive the message.

Message type

Select the encoding of the published message. If possible, ReadyAPI will display the corresponding editor. Available values include --

  • JSON

  • XML

  • Text (UTF-16)

  • Text (UTF-8)

  • Content of file

  • Integer

  • Long (8 bytes)

  • Float

  • Double

Note

  • If the JSON or XML message type is selected, the message is sent as UTF-8 text.

  • Numeric messages are always sent as binary data.

Message

The Text and Tree View panels show the contents of the message.

Message delivering settings

Quality of Service

Choose the Quality of Service you want to use when delivering the message to the broker. Available values:

Value

Description

At most once (0)

The publisher sends the message once and does not check whether the broker received the message. As a result, the broker may or may not receive the message.

At least once (1)

The publisher keeps sending the message until the broker acknowledges that it has received the message. As a result, the broker may receive the same message more than once.

Exactly once (2)

The publisher makes sure that the broker received the message and that the message was received only once.

Retained

Select this check box to store the message on the broker. If you do, all new clients subscribing to the topic will receive the message.

Timeout

Specify how long ReadyAPI waits for the connection to the MQTT broker.

Configure connection dialog

Use the Configure Connection dialog to configure connections used by the test step. You use the same dialog to create a new connection or to update the connection from a legacy version.

The General tab

MQTT Testing in ReadyAPI: Configure connection dialog

Important

The connection may be used in any test case in the project, so only project-level property expansions will work correctly for connection settings.

Name

The unique name used to identify a connection.

Server URL

The MQTT server's URL.

The URL should contain tcp:// when connecting to a TCP socket or ssl:// when connecting to an SSL socket.

The URL may also contain a port number. If the port is not specified, ReadyAPI will use port 1883 for TCP URLs, and 8883 for SSL URLs.

Client ID

The client identifier is used by the server to identify a client. It must be unique across all clients connecting to the same server. This field is optional. If it is empty, a unique client identifier will be generated for every test case run.

Clean Session

Select this check box to create a new connection each time you run the test. If this check box is clear, ReadyAPI and the tested MQTT server will store the session state to enable reliable messaging across several connections. For example, if the connection is lost during the test case run, the Receive MQTT Message test step will still catch messages if it can reconnect.

Authentication

MQTT Testing in ReadyAPI: SSL Properties

Enable the check box if the MQTT server requires authentication.

Login

The user name for connecting to the MQTT server.

Password

The user password for connecting to the MQTT server.

Will message

MQTT Testing in ReadyAPI: SSL Properties

If you enable storing Will messages on the MQTT server, this message will be sent to listeners if the "publisher" client disconnects from the server without sending the Disconnect message.

Topic

Enter the message topic. Only clients subscribed to this topic will receive a message published by this test step.

Message type

Select the message encoding. Available values include --

  • JSON

  • XML

  • Text (UTF-16)

  • Text (UTF-8)

  • Content of file

  • Integer

  • Long (8 bytes)

  • Float

  • Double

Note

  • If the JSON or XML message type is selected, the message is sent as UTF-8 text.

  • Numeric messages are always sent as binary data.

Message

The contents of the message.

Quality of Service

Choose the Quality of Service you want to use when delivering the message. Available values:

Value

Description

At most once (0)

The sender does not check whether the message was received.

At least once (1)

The sender makes sure that the message was received at least once, but does not check whether it was delivered more than once.

Exactly once (2)

The sender makes sure that the message was received only once.

Retained

If selected, the Will message will be a retained message: it will be stored on the broker and sent to all new clients subscribing to the topic.

SSL properties

MQTT Testing in ReadyAPI: SSL Properties

CA certificate

Specifies a fully-qualified path to the certificate of the certificate authority (CA) that signed the server certificate.

Client certificate

Specifies a fully-qualified path to a certificate that will be used to sign messages.

Key file

Specifies a fully-qualified path to the client’s private key.

Key password

The password from the specified key file.

SSL server name

The server to which you want to connect. Typically, it is the same as Server URL.

Note

You can connect by specifying the CA certificate without filling in the other parameters.

Property list

Besides the test step editor, you can adjust the test step’s behavior by using its properties in the Properties and Custom Publish using MQTT Test Step Properties panels in the Navigator.

Properties

Name

Description

Name

The test step’s name.

Description

Text describing the test step.

Custom Publish using MQTT Test Step Properties

Values on the Custom Publish using MQTT Test Step Properties tab are available to other test steps in your project. For instance, you can verify these property values with the Assertion test step, or check them and change the execution flow with the Conditional GoTo test step.

You can load values of custom properties from a file or save them to a file. To learn more, see About Properties.

This tab contains the following properties that provide access to the request and response data.

Name

Description

ServerURI

Specifies the MQTT server’s URL with the used protocols.

Note

Corresponds to the ServerURL option specified on the General tab of the connection settings.

Message

The contents of the message.

Note

The property corresponds to the Message option in the test step editor.

Timeout

Specifies how long ReadyAPI waits for the connection to the MQTT broker (in milliseconds).

Note

The property corresponds to the Timeout option in the test step editor.

CertKeyPEM

Specifies the fully-qualified path to the client key file.

Note

Corresponds to the Key file option specified on the SSL Settings tab of the connection settings.

CertSniServer

Specifies the host name of the server, to which you want to connect.

Note

Corresponds to the Server host name option specified on the SSL Settings tab of the connection settings.

Login

The user name for connecting to the MQTT server.

Note

Corresponds to the Login option specified on the Authentication page of the connection settings.

CertKeyPassword

Specifies the password for the client’s private key file.

Note

Corresponds to the Key password option specified on the SSL Settings tab of the connection settings.

CertCAPEM

Specifies the fully-qualified path to the CA certificate that was used to sign the server certificate.

Note

Corresponds to the CA certificate option specified on the SSL Settings tab of the connection settings.

QoS

Specifies the Quality of Service. Possible values:

  • 0 – At most once

  • 1 – At least once

  • 2 – Exactly once

Note

The property corresponds to the Quality of Service option in the test step editor.

ClientID

The client identifier is used by the server to identify a client.

Note

The property corresponds to the ClientID option specified in the connection settings.

CertClientPEM

Specifies the fully-qualified path to the client’s certificate that will be used to sign messages.

Note

Corresponds to the CA certificate option specified on the SSL Settings tab of the connection settings.

Topic

The message’s topic.

Note

The property corresponds to the Topic option in the test step editor.

MessageType

Encoding of the published message.

Note

The property corresponds to the Message type option in the test step editor.

Password

The user password for connecting to the MQTT server.

Note

Corresponds to the Password option specified on the Authentication page of the connection settings.

Logging

If the test step is run as part of a test case, you can see the test log in the Transaction Log panel.

See Also

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