A JSON body is encoded as defined for the JSON message mapping defined in 7.2.4.6.9.

When sending a MQTT Version 5.0 message the MQTT ContentType property shall be set to application/json when sending uncompressed JSON messages.

JSON messages can become quite large. In order to save bandwidth and to reduce message size, on MQTT Version 5.0 the MQTT Content Type property allows to select a compression type as encoding for a JSON message.

When sending a gzip (RFC 1952) compressed JSON message on MQTT Version 5.0 the MQTT ContentType property shall be set to application/json+gzip. If a Subscriber receives messages without MQTT ContentType from MQTT Version 3.1.1 Publishers it may require manual configuration.