Hi Patrick,
it makes me happy that you are willing to give PLC4X a try and I’ll do my best
to help you that this evaluation has a positive outcome.
I’m currently working hard on finishing the ADS driver for the 0.8.0-SNAPSHOT
branch. I am hopeful that I’ll be able to have something usable this week.
Perhaps a little explanation on why we “removed” the support in 0.7.0:
PLC4X was never intended on being a pure Java solution (I’m currently also
working on porting all drivers to C and on Wednesday we’ll probably have a
kick-off to start the Python development). But we knew that manually writing
drivers for every platform and target language is a maintenance-nightmare.
Therefore in 2019 I invested most of my time in creating a new way of
generating drivers from a machine-readable specification format we invented
(Yes we did evaluate a lot of other solutions and they all had major
disadvantages). So 0.7.0 was where we deleted all of our existing drivers and
replaced them with generated drivers using our greatly improved driver core.
Unfortunately the work on porting the ADS was stalled till I took over
finishing it a few weeks ago. Luckily Beckhoff is being extremely helpful in
helping me advance.
So perhaps Julain could help you, as he’s sort of the unofficial maintainer of
the 0.6-branch (We are considering this a LTS branch as the new drivers
probably still need a little hardening and proving themselves in battle).
Chris
Von: Patrick Boisclair <pboiscl...@noovelia.com>
Antworten an: "dev@plc4x.apache.org" <dev@plc4x.apache.org>
Datum: Dienstag, 11. August 2020 um 15:02
An: "dev@plc4x.apache.org" <dev@plc4x.apache.org>
Betreff: RE: plc4j-protocol-ads not registering
Hi Chris,
Thank you very much for your help, really really appreciated.
In fact, we are evaluating PLC4X for one of our next big project.
I'm currently, just trying to make a "proof of concept".
Unfortunatly, I'm not a Java expert [☹] . Sorry, for my lack of knowledge...
We usually use C# (.net Core) as our main language, some Go (MicroServices),
Flutter for our Mobile apps and TypeScript (Angular) for Web)
The project consist of this (1 java file):
package PLC4XTest;
import org.apache.plc4x.java.PlcDriverManager;
import org.apache.plc4x.java.api.PlcConnection;
import org.apache.plc4x.java.api.exceptions.PlcConnectionException;
public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) throws PlcConnectionException {
PlcDriverManager driver = new PlcDriverManager();
try {
PlcConnection connection = driver.getConnection("ads:tcp://...");
//address hidden on purpose
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
And the entire pom.xml file: (
NOTE: I changed the version as suggested)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd";>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.noovelia.plc4xtest</groupId>
<artifactId>plc4xtest</artifactId>
<version>1</version>
<name>plc4xtest</name>
<!-- FIXME change it to the project's website -->
<url>http://www.example.com</url>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.plc4x</groupId>
<artifactId>plc4j-api</artifactId>
<version>0.6.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.plc4x</groupId>
<artifactId>plc4j-protocol-ads</artifactId>
<version>0.6.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.plc4x</groupId>
<artifactId>plc4j-driver-s7</artifactId>
<version>0.6.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.plc4x</groupId>
<artifactId>plc4j-driver-opcua</artifactId>
<version>0.6.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
<version>1.7.30</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<!-- lock down plugins versions to avoid using Maven defaults (may be
moved to parent pom) -->
<plugins>
<!-- clean lifecycle, see
https://maven.apache.org/ref/current/maven-core/lifecycles.html#clean_Lifecycle
-->
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
</plugin>
<!-- default lifecycle, jar packaging: see
https://maven.apache.org/ref/current/maven-core/default-bindings.html#Plugin_bindings_for_jar_packaging
-->
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.2</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.8.0</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.22.1</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.2</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.2</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.8.2</version>
</plugin>
<!-- site lifecycle, see
https://maven.apache.org/ref/current/maven-core/lifecycles.html#site_Lifecycle
-->
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-site-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.7.1</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>
</project>
Hope it gives you more info, and leas take my sincere thank you for you help.
Patrick Boisclair
Analyste - Programmeur senior / Senior Analyst Programmer
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________________________________
De : Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
Envoyé : 11 août 2020 02:59
À : dev@plc4x.apache.org
Objet : Re: plc4j-protocol-ads not registering
Hi Patrick,
first of all welcome here on our list. We will do our best to assist you.
I did notice a few things:
* You are using the API in version 0.6.0 but the drivers in 0.5.0 … I would
strongly suggest not to mix versions
* The drivers you are using are in version 0.5.0 … I would suggest to
update to version 0.6.0 as the 0.7.0 or 0.8.0-SNAPSHOT version don’t have ADS
support yet
Are you using any form of “Fat-Jar” or shaded archive approach? Cause we have
seen this behavior in these cases. The problem is that every driver has a
property file in “META-INF/services” … each lists only the driver the module
provides. So in case of the default settings the plugins for creating the fat
jars just take one of these property files and skips the rest. You can however
configure it to merge the content. For an example on this please see the
examples pom.xml
<!-- Build a fat jar containing all dependencies -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>generate-uber-jar</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<transformers combine.children="append">
<transformer
implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
<mainClass>${app.main.class}</mainClass>
</transformer>
</transformers>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Hope that helps, if not … just come back and we’ll try to help you.
Chris
Von: Patrick Boisclair <pboiscl...@noovelia.com>
Antworten an: "dev@plc4x.apache.org" <dev@plc4x.apache.org>
Datum: Montag, 10. August 2020 um 20:15
An: "dev@plc4x.apache.org" <dev@plc4x.apache.org>
Betreff: plc4j-protocol-ads not registering
Hi,
I do have a question about "Ads (Beckhoff) protocol".
Im using S7 and OPCUA, and both are registering in the available drivers.
However, the ads one is not.
Here is my dependecies:
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.plc4x</groupId>
<artifactId>plc4j-api</artifactId>
<version>0.6.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.plc4x</groupId>
<artifactId>plc4j-protocol-ads</artifactId>
<version>0.5.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.plc4x</groupId>
<artifactId>plc4j-driver-s7</artifactId>
<version>0.5.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.plc4x</groupId>
<artifactId>plc4j-driver-opcua</artifactId>
<version>0.5.0</version>
</dependency>
Here is the error:
main] INFO org.apache.plc4x.java.PlcDriverManager - Instantiating new PLC
Driver Manager with class loader
jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader@30946e09
[main] INFO org.apache.plc4x.java.PlcDriverManager - Registering available
drivers...
[main] INFO org.apache.plc4x.java.PlcDriverManager - Registering driver for
Protocol s7 (Siemens S7 (Basic))
[main] INFO org.apache.plc4x.java.PlcDriverManager - Registering driver for
Protocol opcua (OPC UA (TCP))
org.apache.plc4x.java.api.exceptions.PlcConnectionException: Unable to find
driver for protocol 'ads'
at
org.apache.plc4x.java.PlcDriverManager.getDriver(PlcDriverManager.java:98)
at
org.apache.plc4x.java.PlcDriverManager.getConnection(PlcDriverManager.java:71)
at PLC4XTest.App.main(App.java:12)
I don't know what I'm doing wrong for the ADS protocols, the other register
just fine.
Can anyone help me pls ?
Thank you very much and best regards
Patrick Boisclair
Analyste - Programmeur senior / Senior Analyst Programmer
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