Hi all,

in order to have some good tests for the S7 protocol, I defined a lot of 
variables in one of the data-blocks of one of my S7 devices.
I then created a little test program that should simply use this to read all 
sorts of types of elements.
With these tests I found some things:


  *   In general all Bit-String operations, when reading arrays, produce lists 
of lists … I think it would be cooler if for bit-strings they would return one 
large List
  *   STRING handling seems to be messed up again
  *   When reading a BOOL array, it seems the S7 only returns the first bit (I 
would have expected it to send up to 8 bits in one byte and after that to add 
more bytes, but it’s always just one and that always just contains the first 
bit) -> We need to translate BOOL-array reads into bit-string operations which 
return partial lists.
  *   Reading of DATE_AND_TIME arrays seems to be messed up as only the first 
item is correct and the succeeding elements are always “null”
  *   Reading of CHAR values seems messed up

I’ll be working on addressing this asap

Chris


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