MQTTLibrary is a Robot Framework library that provides keywords for testing on MQTT brokers. MQTT is a lightweight protocol for machine-to-machine communication, typically used for IoT messaging. This library uses the paho client library published by eclipse project.
MQTTLibrary can be installed using pip:
pip install robotframework-mqttlibrary
You can also install it from the source distribution by running:
python setup.py install
You may need to run the above command with administrator privileges.
Import the library:
*** Settings ***
Library MQTTLibrary
Connect to the broker, publish and disconnect:
*** Test Cases ***
Publish
Connect 127.0.0.1
Publish topic=test/mqtt_test message=test message
[Teardown] Disconnect
Connect to the broker, subscribe and validate that a message is received:
*** Test Cases ***
Subsribe and Validate
Connect 127.0.0.1
Subscribe and Validate topic=test/mqtt_test qos=1 payload=test
[Teardown] Disconnect
Keyword documentation is available at: http://randomsync.github.io/robotframework-mqttlibrary.
Also look at tests
folder for examples.
For general information about using test libraries with Robot Framework, see Robot Framework User Guide.