Add ability to pass arguments to underlying client's connect method. #56
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The MQTTv5 protocol no longer uses
clean_session
setting of the client - it's prohibited by the underlying client to even set this argument when using MQTTv5 protocol. Instead, the MQTTv5 has aclean_start
argument which has to be passed to theconnect
method of the client.The asyncio-mqtt
Client
class doesn't provide any way to pass extra arguments to underlying client'sconnect
method. This prevents using (amongst other) the clean_start functionality with MQTTv5 protocol.This PR proposes a way to set arguments for the underlying paho client connect method, including the
clean_start
one, by providing aConnectArgs
class containing all the extra args and adds an optionalconnect_args
argument toClient
constructor.An example usage: