Creating an infinite async loop

[jhfoo]

Looking to write code that will send data via mqtt perpetually. Learn recently that the publish() method is NOT synchronous, which I augmented by listening to a topic for an ack message before calling the iteration done, and the next iteration publish begins.

So I tried to close the loop by calling the publish() method within the subscribe() handler, and the app crashed with message 'RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded'.

How do people get around this?

[jhfoo]

Am trying using ONE_SHOT timers. Not sure if this is the recommended approach.

[m5stack]

could you share your code to here. maybe people can help you.

[jhfoo]

@m5stack I will share pseudo-codes of the current implementation, which is stable so far:

CycleTimer = Timer(-1)

def main():
  # init and connect mqtt client
  doCycle()

def doCycle():
  global CycleTimer
  # send stuff from mqtt
  # NOTE: do not use machine.lightsleep() as publish() is NOT synchronous
  # lightsleep() will block data from being sent
  CycleTimer.init(period=5000, mode=Timer.ONE_SHOT, callback=doCycle)    

NOTE: this is power-intensive; calling lightsleep() will cause uiflow's mqtt client to crash quickly.