Hi all,
just wanted to give you an update on my progress.
I started with updating the examples and integrations and quickly came to a
point, where I had to continue finishing the API refactoring and the
base-driver refactoring.
So I just committed my last changes that should make it possible to build Read
& Write-Requests. I really hope to finish this refactoring in the next two days
as it's totally driving me nuts.
For the last few days every dream at night has been dealing with architectural
problems, byte encoding and stuff like that ... that has to change ;-)
Just as an example ... the new S7PlcFieldHandlerTest now runs additional 7178
individual tests to test all combinations of Java and S7 type combinations and
their respective value ranges (MIN, MAX, 0, Some random value).
I still need to implement the temporal types Time, Date and DateTime, and test
the "ULWORD" types, but I guess most should be somewhat usable.
Wouldn't have thought that the Write direction was so much more work than the
Read path.
So much for the Update ...
Chris
Am 03.09.18, 13:53 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <j.feina...@pragmaticminds.de>:
Hi Chris,
exactly, that was my point (sorry for writing it not out clearly).
We can do it that way the only thing we are "loosing" is to know whether
bit was given by the user explicitly or not.
I dont know if we need this after parsing is finished anymore.
So we can also do it your way.
Julian
Am 03.09.18, 10:47 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>:
Hi Julian,
had to think a little to get your point ... but think I have ... In my
example it's a primitive "short" and in yours it's "Short" as nullable
non-primitive-type.
I don't technically prefer any of the two options. Physically the
bit-offset of any non-bit type is always 0 and not null (as in undefined) as
every non-bit value always starts at bit 0 ... so for that reason I would
prefer "short" with default 0 over the "Short" nullable version. And this way
we don't have to add null-checks in the code. But as I said ... that's a very
slight preference for that option.
Chris
Am 03.09.18, 10:27 schrieb "Julian Feinauer"
<j.feina...@pragmaticminds.de>:
Hi chris,
I agree with your S7 field except for one little change.
How do we proceed with the (optional) bit offset?
I made it "Short" with the contract that null indicates no offset
given.
Another alternative would be to make it 0 as default or even
Optional.
I would prefer to have it nullable, what do you think?
With the rest I'm fine but as this is part of our internal API now
I think we also have more freedom with evolving them as its not visible to
users.
For all other parts of your proposal +1 from me.
Best
Julian
Am 30.08.18, 10:15 schrieb "Christofer Dutz"
<christofer.d...@c-ware.de>:
Hi all,
especially @Julian ... could you please have a look at that I
did with the S7Field [1]?
Also there is a unit-test that should allow adding more
statements and testing everything is working ok [2].
Does this match your idea on [3]? Looking at your addresses, I
think that I might have not quite got it ... is there always a "D" as first
part after the "."? I always read it as "DB" like Data Block ... but seeing DX
and SW makes me wonder ... a quick check in my TIA shows me the address of a
Boolean field in a Data Block is "%DB1.DBX38.1" ... which one is correct?
As we're no longer constructing the objects themselves in the
API, I took the liberty to simplify the field objects so we now only have one
type for S7.
Chris
[1]
https://github.com/apache/incubator-plc4x/blob/feature/api-redesign-chris-c/plc4j/protocols/s7/src/main/java/org/apache/plc4x/java/s7/model/S7Field.java
[2]
https://github.com/apache/incubator-plc4x/blob/feature/api-redesign-chris-c/plc4j/protocols/s7/src/test/java/org/apache/plc4x/java/s7/model/S7FieldTests.java
[3]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=89070222
Am 28.08.18, 12:23 schrieb "Christofer Dutz"
<christofer.d...@c-ware.de>:
Hi all,
I just pushed changes to my API refactoring branch ... so
far I only adjusted the API module and added an example using the changed API.
To have a look, please go to [1] ...
General changes I implemented while working on the
refactoring itself. I did notice, that my current proposal "chris-2" did
Having to inject the type conversion code would have made
it necessary to inject a converter which didn't feel right. So I changed the
API to be purely interface based.
In order to be able to construct these objects I also added
builders for them.
I asked a few people here what they think, and most liked
the simplicity and didn't have any WTF experiences (Which seems to be a good
thing as I did have to explain a lot with the current API)
Quick Feedback highly appreciated as I will start
implementing DefaultPlcReadRequest & Co (in driver-base ... together with the
builders) after that I'll start migrating the drivers.
Right now having a look a named example [1] would be a good
start ...
Second would be a deeper look into the API module [2].
Would be a shame to waste that time and effort if you think
the changes suck (or are less than optimal as non-Germans would probably call
them ;-) ) .
Chris
[1]
https://github.com/apache/incubator-plc4x/blob/feature/api-redesign-chris-c/examples/hello-plc4x/src/main/java/org/apache/plc4x/java/examples/helloplc4x/HelloPlc4x.java
[2]
https://github.com/apache/incubator-plc4x/tree/feature/api-redesign-chris-c/plc4j/api
Am 27.08.18, 09:57 schrieb "Christofer Dutz"
<christofer.d...@c-ware.de>:
Ups ... after reloading .. I just saw Julians Proposal
pop up ... haven't looked into that ...
Will do that right away.
Chris
Am 25.08.18, 15:52 schrieb "Christofer Dutz"
<christofer.d...@c-ware.de>:
Hi Julian,
version 2 should now be quite different ... I
started reworking my original proposal and decided to revert that an start a
second proposal.
My first did address some parts needing cleaning
up, but I still wasn't quite satisfied with it. So I did another more radical
refactoring.
If you reload the second there should be a lot of
differences.
I just hit "save" a few minutes ago however ... but
now I'm quite happy with it. So please have another look at the second
proposal.
And please, maybe add your own proposal ... my
versions are just Brainstorming from my side.
My favorite is currently "Chris' Proposal 2" ;-)
Chris
