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Developing an MQTT client for MetaTrader 5: a TDD approach — Final for MetaTrader 5
This article is the last part of a series describing our development steps of a native MQL5 client for the MQTT 5.0 protocol. Although the library is not production-ready yet, in this part, we will use our client to update a custom symbol with ticks (or rates) sourced from another broker. Please
Developing an MQTT client for Metatrader 5: a TDD approach — Part 6 for MetaTrader 5
This article is the sixth part of a series describing our development steps of a native MQL5 client for the MQTT 5.0 protocol. In this part we comment on the main changes in our first refactoring, how we arrived at a viable blueprint for our packet-building classes, how we are building PUBLISH and
Developing an MQTT client for Metatrader 5: a TDD approach — Part 5 for MetaTrader 5
This article is the fifth part of a series describing our development steps of a native MQL5 client for the MQTT 5.0 protocol. In this part we describe the structure of PUBLISH packets, how we are setting their Publish Flags, encoding Topic Name(s) strings, and setting Packet Identifier(s) when
Developing an MQTT client for Metatrader 5: a TDD approach — Part 4 for MetaTrader 5
This article is the fourth part of a series describing our development steps of a native MQL5 client for the MQTT protocol. In this part, we describe what MQTT v5.0 Properties are, their semantics, how we are reading some of them, and provide a brief example of how Properties can be used to extend
Developing an MQTT client for MetaTrader 5: a TDD approach — Part 3 for MetaTrader 5
This article is the third part of a series describing our development steps of a native MQL5 client for the MQTT protocol. In this part, we describe in detail how we are using Test-Driven Development to implement the Operational Behavior part of the CONNECT/CONNACK packet exchange. At the end of
Developing an MQTT client for MetaTrader 5: a TDD approach — Part 2 for MetaTrader 5
This article is part of a series describing our development steps of a native MQL5 client for the MQTT protocol. In this part we describe our code organization, the first header files and classes, and how we are writing our tests. This article also includes brief notes about the
Developing an MQTT client for MetaTrader 5: a TDD approach for MetaTrader 5
This article reports the first attempts in the development of a native MQTT client for MQL5. MQTT is a Client Server publish/subscribe messaging transport protocol. It is lightweight, open, simple, and designed to be easy to implement. These characteristics make it ideal for use in many situations
How to connect MetaTrader 5 to PostgreSQL for MetaTrader 5
This article describes four methods for connecting MQL5 code to a Postgres database and provides a step-by-step tutorial for setting up a development environment for one of them, a REST API, using the Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL). A demo app for the API is provided along with the corresponding