Particle.subscribe trigger at setup()

[hlee6]

Hello there,

I have a situation where I need the subscribe handler to be triggered by Particle.publish() during setup(). I register the Particle.subscribe() handler in setup(), and the handler is triggered fine if I publish the event during loop(). But it does not work if Particle.publish() is called in setup()…

To be more clear with my issue:

This works:

void setup() {
    Particle.subscribe("prefix", myHandler);
}

void loop() {
    Particle.publish("prefix/real-thing", "hello", PRIVATE); // this triggers myHandler
}

But this does not:

void setup() {
    Particle.subscribe("prefix", myHandler);
    waitUntil(Particle.connected); // even this does not help
    ...
    Particle.publish("prefix/real-thing", "hello", PRIVATE); // this does NOT trigger myHandler unfortunately
}

void loop() {
    ....
}

If there is some way to fix this, that would be great! Or at least knowing this is intended would be helpful too.

[ScruffR]

This seems to be the expected behaviour now.
Have a read through this discussion
JSONParserGeneratorRK (0.1.3) and OS 2.0.0 - #13 by ScruffR

[hlee6]

Thanks for the quick reply. I would +1 that it would be helpful if Particle can be firm about their stance on this and make it explicit in documentation!

We use Particle.subscribe to retrieve initial state from a server, so our first pass was to get this done in setup().