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flush

Clear received MQTT messages

Since R2022a

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Syntax

flush(mqttClient)
flush(mqttClient,Topic=mqttTopic)

Description

flush(mqttClient) clears all received messages from all subscribed topics in the specified MQTT client.

flush(mqttClient,Topic=mqttTopic) clears all received messages from the specified MQTT topic.

Note that the read function also clears messages after reading them into MATLAB, but the peek function does not.

example

Examples

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View a recent message and then flush all messages.

peek(mqttClient,Topic="TopMW01")
ans =

  1×2 timetable

            Time              Topic           Data      
    ____________________    _________    _______________

    14-Dec-2021 16:29:09    "TopMW01"    "Hello World 3"
flush(mqttClient)
peek(mqttClient)
Warning: No data available to peek for topic "TopMW01". 

ans =

  0×2 empty timetable

Input Arguments

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MQTT client specified as an icomm.mqtt.Client object, created with the mqttclient function.

Example: mqttClient = mqttclient()

Data Types: object

MQTT topic to flush messages from, specified as a string or character vector.

Example: "trubits/mqTop48"

Data Types: string | char

Version History

Introduced in R2022a

See Also

Functions