Where does the bridge configuration end?

Mosquitto MQTT Broker
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So, connection starts a new bridge configuration, but where does it end? With the next non-bridge option or something like that?

Especially in conjunction with include_dir this is a bit confusing… imagine I have three files in the include dir, bridge_a.conf, bridge_b.conf and something_else.conf. Because they are loaded alphabetically, the bridge_....conf files would be loaded first and as they start with connection, they start a bridge configuration. So if I would have (by mistake) a bridge-related config option in something_else.conf, would that affect bridge B because the bridge configuration is still “open”? Or does the configuration of bridge B end when bridge_b.conf ends?

Otherwise I would have to be careful to sort bridge configurations last, like naming the files z_bridge_a.conf and z_bridge_b.conf, but isn’t the idea of config directories kind of that you can just drop files in there without worrying what is already in there?

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Hi,

The bridge config ends either at the start of a new connection, or at the end of a file. So if you have 0.conf and 1.conf as below, an error will be given:

0.conf

connection one
address localhost:1884
topic one both

1.conf

topic faulty both

connection two
address localhost:1884
topic two both

My advice would be always to group together related options.

Regards,

Roger

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