Poll and get MQTT messages from AJAX in browser

问题

Beginner here.

Ok, I'm trying to accomplish a simple data flow:

MQTT-Data-source ---> MQTT Broker ---> NodeJS-MQTT-Client ---> AJAX-on-web-browser (polling-every-3-seconds)

I want to be able to get the MQTT message and show it in the AJAX component in browser side.
Secondly, on console.log(mqttMessage);, how do i clear previous messages? Because on console I can see all previous data as well as the new data adding up.

I'm using mqtt.js for my nodejs mqtt support on Express.

//Server.js
var mqtt            = require('mqtt');
...
...

var getData = function() {
    mqttClient.subscribe(mqttTopic);

    mqttClient.on('message', function(topic, message) {
        mqttMessage = message.toString();
        console.log(mqttMessage);
    })

    return mqttMessage;
}

app.get('/pollData', function(req, res) {
    res.send(getData());
});

And on a simple html page, I've got:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.1.min.js"></script>
<script>
    $(document).ready(
        function() {
            setInterval(function() {
                    $.get('/pollData', function(res) {
                        $('#data').text(res);
                });
            }, 3000);
        }
    );
</script>

回答1:

This is a REALLY bad pattern, you should just use the Paho MQTT Javascript client and subscribe to the topic directly from the web page.

But if you really want to do it this way then the following is the right way to do it.

//Server.js
var mqtt            = require('mqtt');
...
...

var mqttMessage;

mqttClient.subscribe(mqttTopic);

mqttClient.on('message', function(topic, message) {
    mqttMessage = message.toString();
    console.log(mqttMessage);
})


app.get('/pollData', function(req, res) {
    if (mqttMessage) {
        res.send(mqttMessage);
    } else {
        res.status(404).send();
    }
});

This is because you don't read a value from a MQTT topic, you have to wait until somethings is published on that topic, then the broker will forward it to all subscribers. So in the code above you set up the connection, subscribe, then when a message is published it is stored in the mqttMessage variable, then if it's not undefined it can be returned by the REST end point.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46341080/poll-and-get-mqtt-messages-from-ajax-in-browser

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