MQTT Command Line Interface

MQTT 5.0 and 3.1.1 compatible and feature-rich MQTT Command Line Interface

Documentation

A detailed documentation can be found here

Features

• All MQTT 3.1.1 and MQTT 5.0 features are supported
• interactive, direct and verbose Mode for all MQTT Commands
• Shell behavior with Syntax Highlighting, Command completion and history
• configurable default settings
• Ability to connect simultaneously various MQTT Clients to different Broker
• Various distributions available
• Graal support coming soon

Prerequisites

At least Java 8 is required to run MqttCLI.

Quickstart

The simplest way to start the MQTT CLI is typing: $ mqtt See also mqtt --help.

Download latest MQTT CLI package

Packages for Linux, Mac OS and Windows can be found here: Installation/Packages!

Building from source

To do a clean build, issue the following command:

$ ./gradlew clean build This runs the unit tests and compiles a new mqtt-cli-.jar into build/libs. You can then update an existing MQTT CLI installation by replacing its mqtt-cli-.jar with this one.

The build.gradle file contains further instructions for building the platform specific distribution packages. In a nutshell:

For MacOS/Linux brew: $ ./gradlew buildBrewFormula

For the Debian package: $ ./gradlew buildDebianPackage

For the RPM package: $ ./gradlew buildRpmPackage

For the Windows installer: $ ./gradlew buildWindowsZip

Basic Examples

Subscribe example

Command	Explanation
mqtt sub -t topic	Subscribe to a topic on default settings and block the console.
mqtt sub -t test1 -t test2	Subscribe to the topics test1 and test2 on default settings and block the console.
mqtt sub -t test -h localhost -p 1884	Subscribe to topic test at localhost:1884.

See also mqtt sub --help

Publish example

Command	Explanation
mqtt pub -t test -m "Hello"	Publish the message "Hello" to the test topics with the default settings
mqtt pub -t test1 -t test2 -m "Hello Tests"	Publish the message "Hello Tests" on both test topics with the default settings
mqtt pub -t test -m "Hello" -h localhost -p 1884	Publish the message "Hello" on localhost:1884

See also mqtt pub --help

Shell Mode

• If interacting with several clients, using different contexts and publishing and subscribing with them in various ways, the shell mode with further sub commands is useful.

$>mqtt shell

The Shell-Mode is based around a client context driven use case. Therefore methods like Connect and Disconnect switch the current context of the shell and commands like Publish and Subscribe always relate to the currently active client context.

Example:

mqtt shell                # starts the shell

mqtt> con -i myClient           # connect client with identifier
myClient> pub -t test -m msg    # publish with new context client
myClient> dis                   # disconnect and remove context
mqtt> ...

In Shell-Mode the following Commands are available without an active context:

Commands

• con, connect Connects an mqtt client
• dis, disconnect Disconnects an mqtt client
• switch Switch the current context
• ls List all connected clients with their respective identifieres
• cls, clear Clears the screen
• exit

When connected you are switched to the context mode. In context mode all mqtt commands relate to the currently active client.

The following Commands are available with an active context:

Commands:

• pub, publish Publish a message to a list of topics
• sub, subscribe Subscribe this mqtt client to a list of topics
• unsub, unsubscribe Unsubscribes this mqtt client from a list of topics
• dis, disconnect Disconnects this mqtt client
• switch Switch the current context
• ls, list List all connected clients with their respective identifieres
• cls, clear Clears the screen
• exit Exit the current context

Pls. refer to the detailed documentation MQTT CLI Documentation for more examples and complete command descriptions.

Versioning

Semantic Versioning is used.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md

License

See LICENSE