Data Components

A data component represents the common functionality between State Managers and Consumers. It handles connecting to the broker and managing the event loop.

Every standalone application in Astoria must be a Data Component.

The entrypoint of any data component is the run function.

Callbacks

The data component superclass will call various methods at different stages that can be overriden to customise behaviour.

• _pre_connect - Called before MQTT connection

• _post_connect - Called after MQTT connection

• _pre_disconnect - Called before MQTT disconnection

• _post_disconnect - Called after MQTT disconnection