Howto remove retain flag?

[RaymondMouthaan]

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FEATURE REQUEST

remove retain flag from specific topic

Justification

Not sure if it's a bug or a missing feature, but I can't seem to find a way to remove a retain flag from a topic.

Test scenario:

1. Publish a message1 to a topic with retain: true
2. Subscribe to topic -> retained message1 is received
3. Publish an empty message to the topic with retain: false
4. Subscribe to topic -> retained message1 is received <-- Here no message was expected

Also read this https://medium.com/@emqtt/mqtt-in-a-nutshell-2040b244aa4b, but unfortunately it doesn't explain how to remove the retain flag.

As per https://emqx-enterprise-docs-en.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mqtt.html ...

Client sends an empty message using the same topic of the retained message should clean retain, but I've tried this with node-red and mqttfx as clients, but it doesn't work.

Workarounds

Only way to remove the retain flag from a topic is to restart the EMQ docker container(s), but this is most probably working since I have persistence not working ...

Please advise.

Regards, Ray

[turtleDeng]

A PUBLISH Packet with a RETAIN flag set to 1 and a payload containing zero bytes will be processed as normal by the Server and sent to Clients with a subscription matching the topic name.