Wrong Thread I guess!?
> Am 09.07.2018 um 12:44 schrieb Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>:
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> Am 09.07.18, 11:05 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>:
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> Ping? Any opinions on this topic?
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> Am 05.07.18, 11:15 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>:
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> Hi all,
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> Sebastian and I just had a little off-list discussion and I’m taking
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> The issue we were discussing is that for example in the S7 driver, we
> are mapping all supported PLC4X datatypes to corresponding S7 datatypes.
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> Now there are generally two options:
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> * For every driver, create code to map all PLC4X supported
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> * For every driver to use only the supported types and to throw
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> Now I definitely generally favor the first option. As it’s one of
> PLC4X’s unique selling points that you can write code for any PLC without
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> This would be violated by the second option, in my opinion, because
> changing from S7 to Modbus for example would require a change of code, if we
> were reading a Byte for accessing the 8 Boolean digital input values at once.
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> If a user wants to for example write a Byte, Integer, Double to a
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> Regarding Floating-Point numbers and Time values however I would not
> 100% insist on this, because not all PLCs support these and converting a
> Double into a Boolean pattern doesn’t really make sense, same with converting
> a Time into a Boolean value (Converting this into an Long however could make
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> What do you others think?
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