MQTT External Plugin Support and Documentation

[in-da]

Hello Hop community,

I hope you're doing great. I have a requirement to consume data from IBM MQ Series, and after some research, I successfully installed the MQTT external plugin.

However, I haven't found sufficient documentation to effectively work with this transform, and I have a few questions:

• Is the external MQTT plugin still actively supported and recommended?
  I noticed that documentation is only available up to version 2.10, so I'm unsure about its current maintenance status in relation to Hop 2.16.0.

• Are there any guidelines and/or sample implementations available for using the MQTT transform?

I would greatly appreciate any guidance you can provide.

Best regards

[bamaer]

There's not a lot of activity on the MQTT plugins (or on any of the external plugins), but then again, the same can be said for the dependencies it uses. I know these plugins are used in production in a couple of implementations, so I guess they're ok.
There are no license conflicts, so technically we could integrate these plugins into the main code base, but that also includes code cleanup, extended and/or new unit and integration tests, documentation etc, and the development team just hasn't had the bandwidth to do this.
I don't know of any guidelines and/or sample implementations, only that these plugins are actively used. These plugins work more or less similar to the Kafka transforms, so you could take a look at those for reference.

[in-da]

Clear! Thank you.