Am I supposed decode the payload string myself?

[HubKing]

I can publish a string easily with WithPayload("Working"), but how am I supposed to get that string in the subscriber? I could manually do it by

//arg is MqttApplicationMessageReceivedEventArgs
var msg = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(args.ApplicationMessage.PayloadSegment);

but am I not sure if this is the recommended way. Looks too clunky. I saw the example, and it was only using DumpToConsole or something. Isn't there anything like args.PayloadString?

[CZEMacLeod]

@HubKing I've done a simple example available at https://github.com/CZEMacLeod/Tasmota-Mosquitto-MQTTnet-Sample
There is an extension method ConvertPayloadToString which may do what you want, but as many payloads are utf8 encoded numbers, or often utf8 json payloads, converting them to Strings is a lot of memory usage and copying.

I've shown number parsing using Utf8Parser and Json decoding using System.Text.Json.

There are a couple of other little nice example bits in there too. Hope this helps.