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AWS IoT Jobs Library Demo

Introduction

The AWS IoT Jobs Library Demo shows you how to connect to the AWS IoT Jobs service through an MQTT connection, retrieve a job from AWS IoT, and process it on a device. The AWS IoT Jobs Demo project uses the FreeRTOS Windows port, so it can be built and evaluated with the free Community version of Visual Studio on Windows. No microcontroller hardware is needed. The demo establishes a secure connection to the AWS IoT MQTT broker using TLS in the same manner as the MQTT mutual authentication demo.

Source Code Organization

The demo project is called jobs_demo.sln and can be found in the FreeRTOS-Plus Jobs_Demo repository on GitHub in the following directory:

FreeRTOS-Plus\Demo\AWS\Jobs_Windows_Simulator\Jobs_Demo

Configure the Demo Project

The demo uses the FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP TCP/IP stack, so follow the instructions provided for the TCP/IP starter project to:

  1. Install the pre-requisite components (such as WinPCap).
  2. Optionally set a static or dynamic IP address, gateway address and netmask.
  3. Optionally set a MAC address.
  4. Select an Ethernet network interface on your host machine.

The above settings should be changed in the Jobs demo project.

Configure the AWS IoT MQTT Broker Connection

In this demo you use an MQTT connection to the AWS IoT MQTT broker. This connection is configured in the same way as in the MQTT mutual authentication demo.

Build the Demo Project

The demo project uses the free community edition of Visual Studio. To build the demo:

  1. Open the Visual Studio solution file FreeRTOS-Plus/Demo/AWS/Jobs_Windows_Simulator/Jobs_Demo/jobs_demo.sln from within the Visual Studio IDE.
  2. Select build solution from the IDE's build menu.

Functionality

The demo shows the workflow used to receive jobs from AWS IoT and process them on a device. The demo is interactive and requires you to create jobs using either the AWS IoT console or the AWS CLI. See create-job in the AWS CLI Command Reference for more information about creating a job. The demo requires the job document to have an "action" key set to "print" to print a message to the console. The format for this job document is as follows:

{
    "action": "print",
    "message": "INSERT_MESSAGE_HERE"
}

Using the AWS CLI, a job can be created as follows:

aws iot create-job \
    --job-id t12 \
    --targets arn:aws:iot:us-east-1:1234567890:thing/device1 \
    --document '{"action":"print","message":"hello world!"}'

The arguments used above are examples only.

The demo also uses a job document that has the "action" key set to "publish" to republish the message to a topic. The format for the job document is as follows:

{
    "action": "publish",
    "message": "INSERT_MESSAGE_HERE",
    "topic": "topic/name/here"
}

The demo loops until it receives a job document with the "action" key set to "exit" to exit the demo. The format for the job document is as follows:

{
    "action: "exit"
}

Entry point of the Jobs Demo

The source code for the Jobs demo entry point function can be found in JobsDemoExample.c on GitHub. This function performs the following operations:

  1. Establish an MQTT connection using the helper functions in mqtt_demo_helpers.c.
  2. Subscribe to the MQTT topic for the NextJobExecutionChanged API, using helper functions in mqtt_demo_helpers.c. (The topic string is assembled earlier, using macros defined by the Jobs library.)
  3. Publish to the MQTT topic for the StartNextPendingJobExecution API, using helper functions in mqtt_demo_helpers.c. (The topic string is assembled earlier, using macros defined by the Jobs library.)
  4. Repeatedly call MQTT_ProcessLoop to receive incoming messages which are handed to prvEventCallback for processing.
  5. After the demo receives the exit action, unsubscribe from the MQTT topic and disconnect, using the helper functions in mqtt_demo_helpers.c.

Callback for Received MQTT messages

This function calls Jobs_MatchTopic from the Jobs library to classify the incoming MQTT message. If the message type corresponds to a new job, prvNextJobHandler is called.

The function prvNextJobHandler, and the functions it calls, parse the job document from the JSON-formatted message, and execute the action specified by the job. Of particular interest is the function prvSendUpdateForJob.

The source code for this callback function for incoming messages can be found in JobsDemoExample.c on GitHub.

Send an Update for a Running Job

The function prvSendUpdateForJob calls Jobs_Update from the Jobs library to populate the topic string used in the MQTT publish operation that immediately follows.

The source code for the prvSendUpdateForJob function can be found in JobsDemoExample.c on GitHub.

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