MQTT: Managing binary payloads (#6976)

* Managing binary payloads

Hello,
background: I wrote a HA camera component that gets the image from a binary payload. I'm testing it with Zanzito (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.barbaro.zanzito) and it works apparently well: it gets the image and correctly displays it in the front-end.
But I had to make the changes I'm proposing here: the message was being blocked because the utf-8 decoding failed.
As far as I know, the utf-8 encoding is required for the topic, not for the payload. What I did here was try the utf-8 decoding, but even if unsuccessful, it dispatches the message anyway.
Is there anything else I'm missing?
thanks
Gianluca

* Update __init__.py

* Update __init__.py

* Update __init__.py

* git test - ignore

* Should work

* minor fixes

* updated mqtt/services.yaml

* added two tests, modified threaded subscribe

* removing polymer

* requested changes

* requested changes - minor fix

* security wrap around payload_file_path

* services.yaml updated

* removed file publishing

* minor fix

homeassistant/components/mqtt/__init__.py

@@ -201,7 +201,8 @@ def publish_template(hass, topic, payload_template, qos=None, retain=None):
 
 
 @asyncio.coroutine
-def async_subscribe(hass, topic, msg_callback, qos=DEFAULT_QOS):
+def async_subscribe(hass, topic, msg_callback, qos=DEFAULT_QOS,
+                    encoding='utf-8'):
     """Subscribe to an MQTT topic."""
     @callback
     def async_mqtt_topic_subscriber(dp_topic, dp_payload, dp_qos):
@@ -209,7 +210,21 @@ def async_subscribe(hass, topic, msg_callback, qos=DEFAULT_QOS):
         if not _match_topic(topic, dp_topic):
             return
 
-        hass.async_run_job(msg_callback, dp_topic, dp_payload, dp_qos)
+        if encoding is not None:
+            try:
+                payload = dp_payload.decode(encoding)
+                _LOGGER.debug("Received message on %s: %s",
+                              dp_topic, payload)
+            except (AttributeError, UnicodeDecodeError):
+                _LOGGER.error("Illegal payload encoding %s from "
+                              "MQTT topic: %s, Payload: %s",
+                              encoding, dp_topic, dp_payload)
+                return
+        else:
+            _LOGGER.debug("Received binary message on %s", dp_topic)
+            payload = dp_payload
+
+        hass.async_run_job(msg_callback, dp_topic, payload, dp_qos)
 
     async_remove = async_dispatcher_connect(
         hass, SIGNAL_MQTT_MESSAGE_RECEIVED, async_mqtt_topic_subscriber)
@@ -218,10 +233,12 @@ def async_subscribe(hass, topic, msg_callback, qos=DEFAULT_QOS):
     return async_remove
 
 
-def subscribe(hass, topic, msg_callback, qos=DEFAULT_QOS):
+def subscribe(hass, topic, msg_callback, qos=DEFAULT_QOS,
+              encoding='utf-8'):
     """Subscribe to an MQTT topic."""
     async_remove = run_coroutine_threadsafe(
-        async_subscribe(hass, topic, msg_callback, qos),
+        async_subscribe(hass, topic, msg_callback,
+                        qos, encoding),
         hass.loop
     ).result()
 
@@ -372,8 +389,8 @@ def async_setup(hass, config):
         payload_template = call.data.get(ATTR_PAYLOAD_TEMPLATE)
         qos = call.data[ATTR_QOS]
         retain = call.data[ATTR_RETAIN]
-        try:
         if payload_template is not None:
+            try:
                 payload = \
                     template.Template(payload_template, hass).async_render()
             except template.jinja2.TemplateError as exc:
@@ -564,16 +581,8 @@ class MQTT(object):
 
     def _mqtt_on_message(self, _mqttc, _userdata, msg):
         """Message received callback."""
-        try:
-            payload = msg.payload.decode('utf-8')
-        except (AttributeError, UnicodeDecodeError):
-            _LOGGER.error("Illegal utf-8 unicode payload from "
-                          "MQTT topic: %s, Payload: %s", msg.topic,
-                          msg.payload)
-        else:
-            _LOGGER.info("Received message on %s: %s", msg.topic, payload)
         dispatcher_send(
-                self.hass, SIGNAL_MQTT_MESSAGE_RECEIVED, msg.topic, payload,
+            self.hass, SIGNAL_MQTT_MESSAGE_RECEIVED, msg.topic, msg.payload,
             msg.qos
         )
 

tests/common.py

@@ -170,8 +170,11 @@ def mock_service(hass, domain, service):
 @ha.callback
 def async_fire_mqtt_message(hass, topic, payload, qos=0):
     """Fire the MQTT message."""
+    if isinstance(payload, str):
+        payload = payload.encode('utf-8')
     async_dispatcher_send(
-        hass, mqtt.SIGNAL_MQTT_MESSAGE_RECEIVED, topic, payload, qos)
+        hass, mqtt.SIGNAL_MQTT_MESSAGE_RECEIVED, topic,
+        payload, qos)
 
 
 def fire_mqtt_message(hass, topic, payload, qos=0):

tests/components/mqtt/test_init.py

@@ -209,6 +209,31 @@ class TestMQTT(unittest.TestCase):
         self.hass.block_till_done()
         self.assertEqual(0, len(self.calls))
 
+    def test_subscribe_binary_topic(self):
+        """Test the subscription to a binary topic."""
+        mqtt.subscribe(self.hass, 'test-topic', self.record_calls,
+                       0, None)
+
+        fire_mqtt_message(self.hass, 'test-topic', 0x9a)
+
+        self.hass.block_till_done()
+        self.assertEqual(1, len(self.calls))
+        self.assertEqual('test-topic', self.calls[0][0])
+        self.assertEqual(0x9a, self.calls[0][1])
+
+    def test_receiving_non_utf8_message_gets_logged(self):
+        """Test receiving a non utf8 encoded message."""
+        mqtt.subscribe(self.hass, 'test-topic', self.record_calls)
+
+        with self.assertLogs(level='ERROR') as test_handle:
+            fire_mqtt_message(self.hass, 'test-topic', 0x9a)
+            self.hass.block_till_done()
+            self.assertIn(
+                "ERROR:homeassistant.components.mqtt:Illegal payload "
+                "encoding utf-8 from MQTT "
+                "topic: test-topic, Payload: 154",
+                test_handle.output[0])
+
 
 class TestMQTTCallbacks(unittest.TestCase):
     """Test the MQTT callbacks."""
@@ -255,7 +280,8 @@ class TestMQTTCallbacks(unittest.TestCase):
 
         self.assertEqual(1, len(calls))
         last_event = calls[0]
-        self.assertEqual('Hello World!', last_event['payload'])
+        self.assertEqual(bytearray('Hello World!', 'utf-8'),
+                         last_event['payload'])
         self.assertEqual(message.topic, last_event['topic'])
         self.assertEqual(message.qos, last_event['qos'])
 
@@ -298,38 +324,6 @@ class TestMQTTCallbacks(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertRaises(vol.Invalid, mqtt.valid_publish_topic, 'bad+topic')
         self.assertRaises(vol.Invalid, mqtt.valid_subscribe_topic, 'bad\0one')
 
-    def test_receiving_non_utf8_message_gets_logged(self):
-        """Test receiving a non utf8 encoded message."""
-        calls = []
-
-        @callback
-        def record(topic, payload, qos):
-            """Helper to record calls."""
-            data = {
-                'topic': topic,
-                'payload': payload,
-                'qos': qos,
-            }
-            calls.append(data)
-
-        async_dispatcher_connect(
-            self.hass, mqtt.SIGNAL_MQTT_MESSAGE_RECEIVED, record)
-
-        payload = 0x9a
-        topic = 'test_topic'
-        MQTTMessage = namedtuple('MQTTMessage', ['topic', 'qos', 'payload'])
-        message = MQTTMessage(topic, 1, payload)
-        with self.assertLogs(level='ERROR') as test_handle:
-            self.hass.data['mqtt']._mqtt_on_message(
-                None,
-                {'hass': self.hass},
-                message)
-            self.hass.block_till_done()
-            self.assertIn(
-                "ERROR:homeassistant.components.mqtt:Illegal utf-8 unicode "
-                "payload from MQTT topic: %s, Payload: " % topic,
-                test_handle.output[0])
-
 
 @asyncio.coroutine
 def test_setup_embedded_starts_with_no_config(hass):