// Copyright (C) 2019 The Qt Company Ltd. // SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-only /*! \example simplecoapclient \title Simple CoAP Client \examplecategory {Connectivity} \ingroup qtcoap-examples \brief Creating an application that communicates with a CoAP server. \image simplecoapclient.webp \e {Simple CoAP Client} demonstrates how to create a minimalistic CoAP client application to send and receive CoAP messages. \include examples-run.qdocinc \section1 Setting Up a CoAP Server To use the application, you need to specify a CoAP server. You have the following options: \list \li Use the CoAP test server located at \c {coap://coap.me}. \li Create a CoAP server using \l {https://github.com/obgm/libcoap} {libcoap}, \l {https://github.com/keith-cullen/FreeCoAP} {FreeCoAP} or any other CoAP server implementation. \li Use the \l {https://github.com/eclipse/californium/} {Californium} plugtest server, which supports most of the CoAP features. You can build it manually or use a ready Docker image, which builds and starts the plugtest server. The steps for using the docker-based server are described below. \endlist \section2 Using the Docker-based Test Server The following command pulls the docker container for the CoAP server from the Docker Hub and starts it: \badcode docker run --name coap-test-server -d --rm -p 5683:5683/udp -p 5684:5684/udp tqtc/coap-californium-test-server:3.8.0 \endcode To find out the IP address of the docker container, first retrieve the container ID by running \c {docker ps}, which will output something like: \badcode $ docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE 5e46502df88f tqtc/coap-californium-test-server:3.8.0 \endcode Then you can obtain the IP address with the following command: \badcode docker inspect | grep IPAddress \endcode For example: \badcode $ docker inspect 5e46502df88f | grep IPAddress ... "IPAddress": "172.17.0.2", ... \endcode The CoAP test server will be reachable by the retrieved IP address on ports \e 5683 (non-secure) and \e 5684 (secure). To terminate the docker container after usage, use the following command: \badcode docker stop \endcode The \c {} here is the same as retrieved by the \c {docker ps} command. \section1 Creating a Client The first step is to create a CoAP client using the QCoapClient class. Then we need to connect its signals, to get notified when a CoAP reply is received or a request has failed: \quotefromfile simplecoapclient/mainwindow.cpp \skipto MainWindow::MainWindow \printuntil onError \dots \section1 Sending Requests We use the QCoapRequest class to create CoAP requests. This class provides methods for constructing CoAP frames. \skipto on_runButton_clicked \printuntil addOption \dots In this example, we set the URL, as well as the message type and add options to the request. It is also possible to set the payload, message ID, token, and so on, but we are using the default values here. Note that by default, the message ID and token are generated randomly. Based on the selected request method, we send a \c GET, \c PUT, \c POST or \c DELETE request to the server: \skipto switch \dots \printuntil } \dots For \c PUT and \c POST requests we also add \c m_currentData as a payload for the request. For browsing the contents of the server and discovering the resources available on it, a \e discovery request is used: \skipto on_discoverButton_clicked \printuntil { \dots \skipto discoverReply \printuntil onDiscovered \dots \note Instead of QCoapReply class, we use the QCoapResourceDiscoveryReply to keep the reply for a discovery request. It has the QCoapResourceDiscoveryReply::discovered signal, which returns the list of QCoapResources that has been discovered. If there are \e observable resources on the server (meaning that they have the resource type \c obs), we can subscribe to updates on that resource by running an \e observe request: \skipto on_observeButton_clicked \printuntil { \dots \skipto observeReply \printline observeReply \dots \skipto onNotified \printline onNotified \dots The client can unsubscribe from the resource observation by handling the \c clicked() signal of the \c cancelObserveButton: \skipto clicked \dots \printuntil }) The responses coming from the server are displayed in the UI: \quotefromfile simplecoapclient/mainwindow.cpp \skipto MainWindow::addMessage \printto on_runButton_clicked */