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Flow for smart serial protocol

Solved801 views6th July 2023
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Dennis Nacorda [DevOps Member]50 17th April 2023 0 Comments

I have a server that sends data using UDP and want to use smart-serial to receive these data.

Since there will be no triggers or timers or command/response pairs, how can I read the data and set param with the data?

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 6th July 2023

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Timothy Van Poucke [SLC] [DevOps Enabler]1.16K Posted 17th April 2023 1 Comment

Hi Dennis,

As stated in the comment Dojo doesn't allow me to reply nice pieces of XML in comments so here is the answer to your comment:

Yes, actually but actually you would only have 1 response which would look like this:

<Responses>
<Response id="1">
<Name>genericResponse</Name>
<Description>GenericResponse</Description>
<Content>
<Param>60</Param>
</Content>
</Response>
</Responses>

And Param 60 would look like this:

<Param id="60">
<Name>genericResponseParam</Name>
<Description>GenericResponseParam</Description>
<Type>read</Type>
<Interprete>
<RawType>other</RawType>
<LengthType>next param</LengthType>
<Type>string</Type>
</Interprete>
</Param>

After every response of “GenericResponse” you can trigger a QAction and within this QAction you can get the data from the response, check to see if there is still old data. This is some inspiration on how your Qaction might look like:

byte[] bytesBuffer = GetDataFromParameter(protocol, Parameter.messagebuffer_23);
byte[] responseBytes = GetDataFromParameter(protocol, Parameter.genericresponseparam_60);
bool bUpdateInput;
bool bUpdateOutput;

if (responseBytes.Length == 0)
{
return;
}

byte[] bytes = new byte[bytesBuffer.Length + responseBytes.Length];

// This code will append the old + new data
Buffer.BlockCopy(responseBytes, 0, bytes, bytesBuffer.Length, responseBytes.Length);

// In this method we would try and make messages out of the data.
List<NsBusMessage> messages = GetCandidateMessages(protocol, bytes);

// here we will process these messages
ProcessCandidateMessages(protocol, messages, out bUpdateInput, out bUpdateOutput);

public static byte[] GetDataFromParameter(SLProtocol protocol, int ccspPid)
{
Array byteArray = (Array)protocol.GetData("PARAMETER", ccspPid);

if (byteArray != null)
{
byte[] byteCommand = new byte[byteArray.Length];
for (int i = 0; i < byteArray.Length; i++)
{
byteCommand.SetValue(byteArray.GetValue(i), i);
}

return byteCommand;
}

return new byte[] { };
}

Dennis Nacorda [DevOps Member] Posted new comment 17th April 2023
Dennis Nacorda [DevOps Member] commented 17th April 2023

Thanks Timothy, now I understand this connector better and can start writing the protocol.

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