- Add netcoreapp3.1 target framework, allowing this to run on linux and macos as well.
- Switch windows snap7 DLL to 64bit version 1.4.2. This also improves UnitTest stability (reduces false positives) on the CI (including appveyor)
- Changing the port used for S7NetTests when communicating with Snap7 to a value > 1000 allows tests to run on Linux without elevated privileges.
This is very fragile with time-dependent cancellation, but I don't know of a better way without messing with the code to be tested.
Seems to only work when the test is run as a single run, not when running the whole test suit.
- Adds true support for 64bit double / LReal datatype.
- Set old Types.Single and Types.Double to obselete. Both class names use .NET types instead of S7 type names, contrary to all other types.
- Remove already obsoleted conversion from DWord to Real. Why is this even necessary?
For users caring about converting from DWord, they can still convert to single. But unless we get LWord support, there won't be a direct conversion to double/LReal.
- Adjust unit tests by removing rounding, testing directly double read/writes.
There is quite a bit of breaking changes at least in the automated Struct and object functions which automatically translate .NET types to appropriate S7 types.
My consideration was that if we ever want to support 64bit types, there is no way against breaking those existing incorrect conversions from 64bit .NET double to 32 bit S7 Real variables.
For me the tests work fine even when adjust the "chunk size" in WriteBytesAsync. So Snap7 seems to be fine, at least the current version.
This should probably be tested with some live PLC's as well.
This requires reference types that can be null to be annotated by a ? operator, similar to value types.
This gives the advantage that the compiler can warn against any null dereference exceptions, of which this commits elimits a few.
To make the underlying protocol implementation not any more complicated and to eliminate existing problems, and not that precise error reporting, I replaced some return null statements with explicit Exceptions. This lead to the assumption that those core protocoll functions always return non-null objects if they do not throw, making the PLC code simpler.
Adjust some NotConnected tests to look for explicit PlcException instead of NullReferenceException.
Note: This keeps the old methods to be backward compatible.
Note: Unforntunatly a lot of whitespace fixes, refactoring and other trivial stuff is
included. It was to hard to split of in a seperate commit.
Note: Async methods does not use exactly the same structure/signature as the
existing methods. "Out" parameters like ReadClass and ReadStruct instead
returns the struct in tuple. Async methods also rely on exceptions
instead of ErrorCodes to communicate exception states to calling client.
* Use TcpClient and use Async methods (ReadAsync/WriteAsync)
* Implemnt async methods for all existing methods
* Implemnt existing methods using tcpclient.
* Split Plc.cs in more files. (Common, Async, Sync, Helpers)
* Mark old methods as Obsolete
* Split tests in two files
* Implement Async tests
