Client class

function close(): Promise<ResultWithIncomingMessage<Disconnected>>

Returns

Closes the connection to an IoT hub.

function close(done?: IncomingMessageCallback<Disconnected>)

Parameters

Creates an IoT Hub service client from the given connection string using the default transport (Amqp) or the one specified in the second argument.

static function fromConnectionString(connStr: string, transportCtor?: TransportCtor): Client

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Returns

Creates an IoT Hub service client from the given shared access signature using the default transport (Amqp) or the one specified in the second argument.

static function fromSharedAccessSignature(sharedAccessSignature: string, transportCtor?: TransportCtor): Client

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Returns

Creates an IoT Hub service client from the given Azure tokenCredential using the default transport (Amqp) or the one specified in the second argument.

static function fromTokenCredential(hostName: string, tokenCredential: TokenCredential, transportCtor?: TransportCtor): Client

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Returns

function getFeedbackReceiver(): Promise<ResultWithIncomingMessage<ServiceReceiver>>

Returns

Returns a AmqpReceiver object which emits events when new feedback messages are received by the client.

function getFeedbackReceiver(done?: IncomingMessageCallback<ServiceReceiver>)

Parameters

function getFileNotificationReceiver(): Promise<ResultWithIncomingMessage<ServiceReceiver>>

Returns

Returns a AmqpReceiver object which emits events when new file upload notifications are received by the client.

function getFileNotificationReceiver(done?: IncomingMessageCallback<ServiceReceiver>)

Parameters

function invokeDeviceMethod(deviceId: string, methodParams: DeviceMethodParams): Promise<ResultWithIncomingMessage<any>>

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Returns

Invokes a method on a particular device or module.

function invokeDeviceMethod(deviceId: string, methodParams: DeviceMethodParams, done?: IncomingMessageCallback<any>)

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function invokeDeviceMethod(deviceId: string, moduleId: string, methodParams: DeviceMethodParams): Promise<ResultWithIncomingMessage<any>>

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Returns

function invokeDeviceMethod(deviceId: string, moduleId: string, methodParams: DeviceMethodParams, done: IncomingMessageCallback<any>)

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function open(): Promise<ResultWithIncomingMessage<Connected>>

Returns

Opens the connection to an IoT hub.

function open(done?: IncomingMessageCallback<Connected>)

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function send(deviceId: string, message: Message | BufferConvertible): Promise<ResultWithIncomingMessage<MessageEnqueued>>

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Returns

Sends a message to a device.

function send(deviceId: string, message: Message | BufferConvertible, done?: IncomingMessageCallback<MessageEnqueued>)

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Set the policy used by the client to retry network operations.

function setRetryPolicy(policy: RetryPolicy)

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Alias for emitter.on(eventName, listener).

function addListener<E>(eventName: string | symbol, listener: (args: any[]) => void): Client

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Returns

Inherited From EventEmitter.addListener

Synchronously calls each of the listeners registered for the event named eventName, in the order they were registered, passing the supplied arguments to each.

Returns true if the event had listeners, false otherwise.

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
const myEmitter = new EventEmitter();

// First listener
myEmitter.on('event', function firstListener() {
  console.log('Helloooo! first listener');
});
// Second listener
myEmitter.on('event', function secondListener(arg1, arg2) {
  console.log(`event with parameters ${arg1}, ${arg2} in second listener`);
});
// Third listener
myEmitter.on('event', function thirdListener(...args) {
  const parameters = args.join(', ');
  console.log(`event with parameters ${parameters} in third listener`);
});

console.log(myEmitter.listeners('event'));

myEmitter.emit('event', 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);

// Prints:
// [
//   [Function: firstListener],
//   [Function: secondListener],
//   [Function: thirdListener]
// ]
// Helloooo! first listener
// event with parameters 1, 2 in second listener
// event with parameters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in third listener

function emit<E>(eventName: string | symbol, args: any[]): boolean

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Returns

Inherited From EventEmitter.emit

Returns an array listing the events for which the emitter has registered listeners.

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';

const myEE = new EventEmitter();
myEE.on('foo', () => {});
myEE.on('bar', () => {});

const sym = Symbol('symbol');
myEE.on(sym, () => {});

console.log(myEE.eventNames());
// Prints: [ 'foo', 'bar', Symbol(symbol) ]

function eventNames(): (string | symbol)[]

Returns

Inherited From EventEmitter.eventNames

Returns the current max listener value for the EventEmitter which is either set by emitter.setMaxListeners(n) or defaults to events.defaultMaxListeners.

function getMaxListeners(): number

Returns

Inherited From EventEmitter.getMaxListeners

Returns the number of listeners listening for the event named eventName. If listener is provided, it will return how many times the listener is found in the list of the listeners of the event.

function listenerCount<E>(eventName: string | symbol, listener?: (args: any[]) => void): number

Parameters

Returns

Inherited From EventEmitter.listenerCount

Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName.

server.on('connection', (stream) => {
  console.log('someone connected!');
});
console.log(util.inspect(server.listeners('connection')));
// Prints: [ [Function] ]

function listeners<E>(eventName: string | symbol): (args: any[]) => void[]

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Returns

Inherited From EventEmitter.listeners

Alias for emitter.removeListener().

function off<E>(eventName: string | symbol, listener: (args: any[]) => void): Client

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Returns

Inherited From EventEmitter.off

Adds the listener function to the end of the listeners array for the event named eventName. No checks are made to see if the listener has already been added. Multiple calls passing the same combination of eventName and listener will result in the listener being added, and called, multiple times.

server.on('connection', (stream) => {
  console.log('someone connected!');
});

Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

By default, event listeners are invoked in the order they are added. The emitter.prependListener() method can be used as an alternative to add the event listener to the beginning of the listeners array.

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
const myEE = new EventEmitter();
myEE.on('foo', () => console.log('a'));
myEE.prependListener('foo', () => console.log('b'));
myEE.emit('foo');
// Prints:
//   b
//   a

function on<E>(eventName: string | symbol, listener: (args: any[]) => void): Client

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Returns

Inherited From EventEmitter.on

Adds a one-time listener function for the event named eventName. The next time eventName is triggered, this listener is removed and then invoked.

server.once('connection', (stream) => {
  console.log('Ah, we have our first user!');
});

Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

By default, event listeners are invoked in the order they are added. The emitter.prependOnceListener() method can be used as an alternative to add the event listener to the beginning of the listeners array.

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
const myEE = new EventEmitter();
myEE.once('foo', () => console.log('a'));
myEE.prependOnceListener('foo', () => console.log('b'));
myEE.emit('foo');
// Prints:
//   b
//   a

function once<E>(eventName: string | symbol, listener: (args: any[]) => void): Client

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Returns

Inherited From EventEmitter.once

Adds the listener function to the beginning of the listeners array for the event named eventName. No checks are made to see if the listener has already been added. Multiple calls passing the same combination of eventName and listener will result in the listener being added, and called, multiple times.

server.prependListener('connection', (stream) => {
  console.log('someone connected!');
});

Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

function prependListener<E>(eventName: string | symbol, listener: (args: any[]) => void): Client

Parameters

Returns

Inherited From EventEmitter.prependListener

Adds a one-time listener function for the event named eventName to the beginning of the listeners array. The next time eventName is triggered, this listener is removed, and then invoked.

server.prependOnceListener('connection', (stream) => {
  console.log('Ah, we have our first user!');
});

Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

function prependOnceListener<E>(eventName: string | symbol, listener: (args: any[]) => void): Client

Parameters

Returns

Inherited From EventEmitter.prependOnceListener

Returns a copy of the array of listeners for the event named eventName, including any wrappers (such as those created by .once()).

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
const emitter = new EventEmitter();
emitter.once('log', () => console.log('log once'));

// Returns a new Array with a function `onceWrapper` which has a property
// `listener` which contains the original listener bound above
const listeners = emitter.rawListeners('log');
const logFnWrapper = listeners[0];

// Logs "log once" to the console and does not unbind the `once` event
logFnWrapper.listener();

// Logs "log once" to the console and removes the listener
logFnWrapper();

emitter.on('log', () => console.log('log persistently'));
// Will return a new Array with a single function bound by `.on()` above
const newListeners = emitter.rawListeners('log');

// Logs "log persistently" twice
newListeners[0]();
emitter.emit('log');

function rawListeners<E>(eventName: string | symbol): (args: any[]) => void[]

Parameters

Returns

Inherited From EventEmitter.rawListeners

Removes all listeners, or those of the specified eventName.

It is bad practice to remove listeners added elsewhere in the code, particularly when the EventEmitter instance was created by some other component or module (e.g. sockets or file streams).

Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

function removeAllListeners<E>(eventName?: string | symbol): Client

Parameters

Returns

Inherited From EventEmitter.removeAllListeners

Removes the specified listener from the listener array for the event named eventName.

const callback = (stream) => {
  console.log('someone connected!');
};
server.on('connection', callback);
// ...
server.removeListener('connection', callback);

removeListener() will remove, at most, one instance of a listener from the listener array. If any single listener has been added multiple times to the listener array for the specified eventName, then removeListener() must be called multiple times to remove each instance.

Once an event is emitted, all listeners attached to it at the time of emitting are called in order. This implies that any removeListener() or removeAllListeners() calls after emitting and before the last listener finishes execution will not remove them from emit() in progress. Subsequent events behave as expected.

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
class MyEmitter extends EventEmitter {}
const myEmitter = new MyEmitter();

const callbackA = () => {
  console.log('A');
  myEmitter.removeListener('event', callbackB);
};

const callbackB = () => {
  console.log('B');
};

myEmitter.on('event', callbackA);

myEmitter.on('event', callbackB);

// callbackA removes listener callbackB but it will still be called.
// Internal listener array at time of emit [callbackA, callbackB]
myEmitter.emit('event');
// Prints:
//   A
//   B

// callbackB is now removed.
// Internal listener array [callbackA]
myEmitter.emit('event');
// Prints:
//   A

Because listeners are managed using an internal array, calling this will change the position indexes of any listener registered after the listener being removed. This will not impact the order in which listeners are called, but it means that any copies of the listener array as returned by the emitter.listeners() method will need to be recreated.

When a single function has been added as a handler multiple times for a single event (as in the example below), removeListener() will remove the most recently added instance. In the example the once('ping') listener is removed:

import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
const ee = new EventEmitter();

function pong() {
  console.log('pong');
}

ee.on('ping', pong);
ee.once('ping', pong);
ee.removeListener('ping', pong);

ee.emit('ping');
ee.emit('ping');

Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

function removeListener<E>(eventName: string | symbol, listener: (args: any[]) => void): Client

Parameters

Returns

Inherited From EventEmitter.removeListener

By default EventEmitters will print a warning if more than 10 listeners are added for a particular event. This is a useful default that helps finding memory leaks. The emitter.setMaxListeners() method allows the limit to be modified for this specific EventEmitter instance. The value can be set to Infinity (or 0) to indicate an unlimited number of listeners.

Returns a reference to the EventEmitter, so that calls can be chained.

function setMaxListeners(n: number): Client

Parameters

Returns

Inherited From EventEmitter.setMaxListeners

The Symbol.for('nodejs.rejection') method is called in case a promise rejection happens when emitting an event and captureRejections is enabled on the emitter. It is possible to use events.captureRejectionSymbol in place of Symbol.for('nodejs.rejection').

import { EventEmitter, captureRejectionSymbol } from 'node:events';

class MyClass extends EventEmitter {
  constructor() {
    super({ captureRejections: true });
  }

  [captureRejectionSymbol](err, event, ...args) {
    console.log('rejection happened for', event, 'with', err, ...args);
    this.destroy(err);
  }

  destroy(err) {
    // Tear the resource down here.
  }
}

function [captureRejectionSymbol](error: Error, event: string | symbol, args: any[])

Parameters

Inherited From EventEmitter.__@captureRejectionSymbol@88