open connection with custom socket

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Feature Description

I would like to be able to connect with a manually provided socket.

This would enable me to tunnel MQTT through an SSH connection with paramiko.

import paramiko

# connect to SSH gateway
sshclient = paramiko.SSHClient()
sshclient.connect("sshgateway.example.org", "user", "password")

def create_socket():
  # open tunnel to the internal MQTT port
  return sshclient.get_transport().open_channel('direct-tcpip', ("127.0.0.1", 1883), ('', 0))

import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
mqttc = mqtt.Client(mqtt.CallbackAPIVersion.VERSION2)
mqttc.connect("127.0.0.1", transport="callback", create_socket=create_socket) 

Requested Solution

import socket

def create_socket():
  sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
  sock.connect(('mqtt.example.org', 1883))
  return sock

import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
mqttc = mqtt.Client(mqtt.CallbackAPIVersion.VERSION2)
mqttc.connect("mqtt.example.org", transport="callback", create_socket=create_socket) 

Alternatives

For now, I can use my own SocketedClient class, which inherits Client and uses a provided create_socket function on connect() and reconnect().