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title: CoAP weight: 4702

tibco-coap

This trigger provides your flogo application the ability to start a flow via CoAP

Installation

flogo add trigger github.com/TIBCOSoftware/flogo-contrib/trigger/coap

Schema

Settings, Outputs and Endpoint:

"settings": [
  {
    "name": "port",
    "type": "integer",
  }
],
"output": [
  {
    "name": "payload",
    "type": "string"
  }
],
"endpoint": {
  "settings": [
    {
      "name": "method",
      "type": "string",
      "required" : true
    },
    {
      "name": "path",
      "type": "string",
      "required" : true
    }
  ]
}

Settings

Trigger:

Setting	Description
port	Used to override the standard CoAP server port of 5683

Endpoint:

Setting	Description
method	The CoAP method
path	The resource path

Example Configurations

Triggers are configured via the triggers.json of your application. The following are some example configuration of the CoAP Trigger.

POST

Configure the Trigger to handle a CoAP POST message with path /device/refresh

{
  "triggers": [
    {
      "name": "flogo-coap",
      "settings": {},
      "endpoints": [
        {
          "actionType": "flow",
          "actionURI": "embedded://myflow",
          "settings": {
            "method": "POST",
            "path": "/device/refresh"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Testing

Do to some simple testing of the CoAP trigger, you can use the Copper (Cu) plugin for Firefox.

Once you have the plugin installed, you can interact with the trigger by going to: coap://localhost:5683 in Firefox.