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Posted to dev@streampipes.apache.org by Julian Feinauer <j....@pragmaticminds.de> on 2020/05/29 08:50:18 UTC
[PROPOSAL] Add better PLC4X-API support for Input Dialogs
Hi folks,
this is an old Issue (see https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PLC4X/API+Extension+for+1.0).
What I generally would like to have is a way to communicate with the API / the Driver without needing a Connection to e.g. „talk“ about the address input and probably also the connection parameters.
To give you an example, consider I want to have a mask where users could enter their url and address.
It would be nice to get all available protocols
Map<String, Driver> map = driverManager.getAllRegisteredProtocols()
to show it in a drop down.
When user selects one I could generate a form to enter all connection parameters
driver.getConnectionParameters();
And then, when he wants to enter a Field Address I could go on like that and could do many things already with the Driver without hte need to have a Conneciton in Place already. Like:
driver.validate(„%DB.asdf“) <-- fails
driver.getValidatingRegex() <-- Could be used in my forms
or even get more detailed information, like an abstract address specification that I could use to build a form.
For S7 this could for example be
List<AddressPart> driver.getAddressParts()
which could be something like
MemoryPart <- Enum-Like „DB, Q, I, ...“ and so on.
Tob e clear: I ONLY want to extend the current API and not change anything setup. So all APIs would stay in Place as is but this would help people who allow their users to input PLC4X Informations like we do or e.g. Streampipes (thus, added as CC here).
WDYT?
Julian
Re: [PROPOSAL] Add better PLC4X-API support for Input Dialogs
Posted by Otto Fowler <ot...@gmail.com>.
I thought it would have already done that
On May 29, 2020 at 05:13:12, Christofer Dutz (christofer.dutz@c-ware.de)
wrote:
I fully agree that we need such a thing.
Chris
Am 29.05.20, 10:50 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <j....@pragmaticminds.de>:
Hi folks,
this is an old Issue (see
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PLC4X/API+Extension+for+1.0).
What I generally would like to have is a way to communicate with the API /
the Driver without needing a Connection to e.g. „talk“ about the address
input and probably also the connection parameters.
To give you an example, consider I want to have a mask where users could
enter their url and address.
It would be nice to get all available protocols
Map<String, Driver> map = driverManager.getAllRegisteredProtocols()
to show it in a drop down.
When user selects one I could generate a form to enter all connection
parameters
driver.getConnectionParameters();
And then, when he wants to enter a Field Address I could go on like that
and could do many things already with the Driver without hte need to have a
Conneciton in Place already. Like:
driver.validate(„%DB.asdf“) <-- fails
driver.getValidatingRegex() <-- Could be used in my forms
or even get more detailed information, like an abstract address
specification that I could use to build a form.
For S7 this could for example be
List<AddressPart> driver.getAddressParts()
which could be something like
MemoryPart <- Enum-Like „DB, Q, I, ...“ and so on.
Tob e clear: I ONLY want to extend the current API and not change anything
setup. So all APIs would stay in Place as is but this would help people who
allow their users to input PLC4X Informations like we do or e.g.
Streampipes (thus, added as CC here).
WDYT?
Julian
Re: [PROPOSAL] Add better PLC4X-API support for Input Dialogs
Posted by Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>.
I fully agree that we need such a thing.
Chris
Am 29.05.20, 10:50 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <j....@pragmaticminds.de>:
Hi folks,
this is an old Issue (see https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PLC4X/API+Extension+for+1.0).
What I generally would like to have is a way to communicate with the API / the Driver without needing a Connection to e.g. „talk“ about the address input and probably also the connection parameters.
To give you an example, consider I want to have a mask where users could enter their url and address.
It would be nice to get all available protocols
Map<String, Driver> map = driverManager.getAllRegisteredProtocols()
to show it in a drop down.
When user selects one I could generate a form to enter all connection parameters
driver.getConnectionParameters();
And then, when he wants to enter a Field Address I could go on like that and could do many things already with the Driver without hte need to have a Conneciton in Place already. Like:
driver.validate(„%DB.asdf“) <-- fails
driver.getValidatingRegex() <-- Could be used in my forms
or even get more detailed information, like an abstract address specification that I could use to build a form.
For S7 this could for example be
List<AddressPart> driver.getAddressParts()
which could be something like
MemoryPart <- Enum-Like „DB, Q, I, ...“ and so on.
Tob e clear: I ONLY want to extend the current API and not change anything setup. So all APIs would stay in Place as is but this would help people who allow their users to input PLC4X Informations like we do or e.g. Streampipes (thus, added as CC here).
WDYT?
Julian
Re: [PROPOSAL] Add better PLC4X-API support for Input Dialogs
Posted by Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>.
I fully agree that we need such a thing.
Chris
Am 29.05.20, 10:50 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <j....@pragmaticminds.de>:
Hi folks,
this is an old Issue (see https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PLC4X/API+Extension+for+1.0).
What I generally would like to have is a way to communicate with the API / the Driver without needing a Connection to e.g. „talk“ about the address input and probably also the connection parameters.
To give you an example, consider I want to have a mask where users could enter their url and address.
It would be nice to get all available protocols
Map<String, Driver> map = driverManager.getAllRegisteredProtocols()
to show it in a drop down.
When user selects one I could generate a form to enter all connection parameters
driver.getConnectionParameters();
And then, when he wants to enter a Field Address I could go on like that and could do many things already with the Driver without hte need to have a Conneciton in Place already. Like:
driver.validate(„%DB.asdf“) <-- fails
driver.getValidatingRegex() <-- Could be used in my forms
or even get more detailed information, like an abstract address specification that I could use to build a form.
For S7 this could for example be
List<AddressPart> driver.getAddressParts()
which could be something like
MemoryPart <- Enum-Like „DB, Q, I, ...“ and so on.
Tob e clear: I ONLY want to extend the current API and not change anything setup. So all APIs would stay in Place as is but this would help people who allow their users to input PLC4X Informations like we do or e.g. Streampipes (thus, added as CC here).
WDYT?
Julian
Re: [PROPOSAL] Add better PLC4X-API support for Input Dialogs
Posted by "Robinet, Etienne" <43...@etu.he2b.be>.
Hi Julian,
+1 on that one for sure.
Etienne
Le ven. 29 mai 2020 à 10:50, Julian Feinauer <j....@pragmaticminds.de>
a écrit :
> Hi folks,
>
> this is an old Issue (see
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PLC4X/API+Extension+for+1.0).
> What I generally would like to have is a way to communicate with the API /
> the Driver without needing a Connection to e.g. „talk“ about the address
> input and probably also the connection parameters.
>
> To give you an example, consider I want to have a mask where users could
> enter their url and address.
> It would be nice to get all available protocols
>
> Map<String, Driver> map = driverManager.getAllRegisteredProtocols()
>
> to show it in a drop down.
> When user selects one I could generate a form to enter all connection
> parameters
>
> driver.getConnectionParameters();
>
> And then, when he wants to enter a Field Address I could go on like that
> and could do many things already with the Driver without hte need to have a
> Conneciton in Place already. Like:
>
> driver.validate(„%DB.asdf“) <-- fails
> driver.getValidatingRegex() <-- Could be used in my forms
>
> or even get more detailed information, like an abstract address
> specification that I could use to build a form.
> For S7 this could for example be
>
> List<AddressPart> driver.getAddressParts()
>
> which could be something like
>
> MemoryPart <- Enum-Like „DB, Q, I, ...“ and so on.
>
> Tob e clear: I ONLY want to extend the current API and not change anything
> setup. So all APIs would stay in Place as is but this would help people who
> allow their users to input PLC4X Informations like we do or e.g.
> Streampipes (thus, added as CC here).
>
> WDYT?
>
> Julian
>
Re: [PROPOSAL] Add better PLC4X-API support for Input Dialogs
Posted by Lukas Ott <ot...@gmail.com>.
+1 for that .
Like you wrote on Slack "So I would like to have it in the “normal” API
-Then anyone could build its wizards on top of that"
As most of the proprietary have some kind of wizard or configuration
front-end Apache PLC4X should have an API for that.
Am Fr., 29. Mai 2020 um 11:09 Uhr schrieb Sebastian Rühl
<se...@googlemail.com.invalid>:
> SGTM
>
> Sebastian
>
Re: [PROPOSAL] Add better PLC4X-API support for Input Dialogs
Posted by Sebastian Rühl <se...@googlemail.com.INVALID>.
SGTM
Sebastian