CoAP integration to Netty

[Mxo]

Hi,

I am currently experimenting with Kaa IoT platform for a network of sensors.

The main challenge is that our transport for the sensors is CoAP,and Netty in Kaa does not have CoAP. 

I have tried to add the nCoAP (https://github.com/okleine/nCoAP) CoAP implementation and it is still a challenge.

If anyone has an experience on such how to add new transport, their help will be highly appreciated.

regards,

Mxo

  

[Alex P]

Hi, 

You can check out different transport codecs here: https://github.com/netty/netty/tree/master/codec-memcache or here: https://github.com/netty/netty/tree/master/codec-mqtt

If there's already a protocol parser in `nCoAP` you can just reuse it. Other than that - you have to have client and server protocol parsers and generators, and possibly some sort of state machine. 

Netty has all means to do it, but implementing a fully working protocol is always a challenge.