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[Andy Piper <andypiperuk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting issue... in terms of making this a formal feature request, I'd
raise a bug against mosquitto :-) NB the project is moving to Eclipse, so
you may want to use Eclipse Bugzilla to do that.


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Remi SALEMBIER <remi.salembier@xxxxxxx>wrote:

> Yeah, I know it is still possible to clear all the retained data by
> publishing with no payload...
> But to do that I need to store somewhere all the topics I need to clear
> (using the Mosquitto plugin probably) and then send all the publish
> requests to the broker. It's quiet a heavy way to just perform a cleanup.
>
> Remi
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Mosquitto-users [mailto:mosquitto-users-bounces+remi.salembier=
> niji.fr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Jan-Piet Mens
> Envoyé : jeudi 28 novembre 2013 17:16
> À : mosquitto-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Objet : Re: [Mosquitto-users] Mosquitto Internal flush
>
> Hello,
>
> > Are there any other options or anything planned to be able to make a
> proper cleanup ?
>
> It works as designed :)
>
> If you want to completely wipe the retained database (and therewith lose
> all retained publications) you can stop Mosquitto, rm its database, and
> restart it. (Not recommended.)
>
> Otherwise, you can wipe an individual retained topic by publishing a NULL
> payload to that topic. mosquitto_pub has an option for doing that:
>
>         mosquitto_pub -t topic -n -r
>
> Hope that helps,
>
>         -JP
>
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