PUBSUB connect, disconnect with mqttStatus callback

[praveshkhatana]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We are using IOT for presence system and there is no such method to Connect & Disconnect like we have in other IOS/Android IOT SDK. Also no way to check the mqttStatus. It requires to build the logic based on it, for example, we can update user online/offline status in Database based on returned mqttStatus 1/3/5.

Describe the solution you'd like
Provide Connect (with MqttStatus Callback) & Disconnect methods.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Any other way to provide MqttStatus Callback(important part, need this to update database) with current Subscribe method. But I think, It won't work in this way. It should be the same like we have in IOS/Android SDK.

[elorzafe]

Hi @praveshkhatana thanks for your feedback, I will tag this as feature-request

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[Stefano1990]

Since this has been closed what is the recommended approach for implementing a presence system in aws amplify?

[stocaaro]

We've just released connection state monitoring for the IoT integration, which is now documented here. For the use-case of presence monitoring, I wouldn't recommend the PubSub IoT integration as this requires the user to be logged in and individually authorized against the IoT policy from the PubSub getting started guide.

If I where building presence monitoring today, I would use the API category to add a non-persisted subscribe-able mutation which other users could then subscribe to which other users can listen for. If each user is signaling presence once per minute, then all other users can track the number of events that have happened in the past minute.

Adjust as needed to account for auth/use uniqueness or persistence to best capture initial state.