Hi Chris,
thanks for the clarification, as you see I've never been that deeply involved with an apache project, yet (up to now just small fixes and commits). And in that case I agree with you to keep "conceptual" discussions here. Best Julian Am 11.08.18, 10:58 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>: Hi all, Well the thing is, that if we take discussions to the issue, people on the list aren't included in this. So if there are usage aspects, they should be discussed here, I think. Otherwise we would require folks to automatically monitor other sources too. However I'm fine with implementation details being discussed there. After all, the Apache mantra is: "if it didn't happen on the list, it didn't happen" Chris Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> herunterladen ________________________________ From: Julian Feinauer <j.feina...@pragmaticminds.de> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2018 10:34:17 AM To: dev@plc4x.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Change the format of the S7 Adresses Hi all, as it seems like everybody agreed on the proposed API Change / extension I allowed myself to create an Issue for this to coordinate the work on that under https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/PLC4X/issues/PLC4X-43 I suggest that we move further discussion there. Is this okay for all of you? Julian Am 07.08.18, 13:06 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <j.feina...@pragmaticminds.de>: Hi, Looks good to me. Best Julian Am 07.08.18, 12:53 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>: Hi Julian, well I would propose to add the type suffix with ":{typename}" but unfortunately every system has its own types and interpretations. So our current S7 address would look like this: DATA_BLOCKS/1/0 --[would be changed to]--> DATA_BLOCKS/1/0:INT One universal notation for addresses in all drivers will probably not work. For example with Modbus the memory block (Coils or Registers) for example determins the datatype and with Ethernet/IP for example the address will probably look more like: #2#1#5:INT Which means: #{classId}#{instanceId}#{propertyId}:{type} Chris Am 07.08.18, 12:39 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <j.feina...@pragmaticminds.de>: Hi Chris, I guess I'm fine with everything but perhaps we should try to find a syntax which goes well for all drivers where this feature is needed. Could you post an example string for such a suffix? And I'm definetly for a "guessing" feature to keep support for the current API. Julian Am 07.08.18, 11:25 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>: Yeah ... I guess you are right ( And regarding Sebastian's suggestion to keep the "it friendly" format. I think this shouldn't be a problem. All we need are more pattern matchers. What we do need however is an extension of the existing format to add the type ... Not quite sure if we should prefix the existing strings with a type or add them with a suffix. I think I would prefer a suffix ... If we make it a suffix, we could make it optional and guess a fitting default type if omitted (same behavior as now)+ Chris Am 03.08.18, 15:53 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <j.feina...@pragmaticminds.de>: Just a small note to your example, in case of the "DOUBLE" we should write LREAL und relly stick to the TIA naming. Just stating that to avoid confusion. Julian Am 03.08.18, 15:42 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>: This is the Discussion thread, so please perform any form of discussion here to keep the vote thread clean and readable. Chris