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Binding Configuration usage [message #1698243]

Fri, 12 June 2015 12:40

Dirk Stueben

Messages: 7
Registered: May 2015
Location: Ostfriesland, Germany

Junior Member

Hi,

I would like to have some configuration with several parameter for our binding. I have added them to the binding.xml under ESH-INF/binding

But at this point I don't know how I could proceed.

How could I set the configuration? Can I do it in the Paper UI?

How could I get the configuration for example inside a Bridge/ThingHandler?

Currently I have a work around and duplicate the configuration parameters to the Bridge, where I could define them on create of the Bridge. But for the current implementation of the service the parameters have to be the same for all Bridges.

Best regards,

Dirk

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Re: Binding Configuration usage [message #1698251 is a reply to message #1698243]

Fri, 12 June 2015 13:58

Kiralik Beyin

Messages: 2
Registered: June 2015

Junior Member

I don't know too.
Maybe someone make a youtube video beginning to end for Serial binding

This will make you more hungry : youtube.com/watch?v=30nhm0yIcvA thank you Kai Kreuzer
But now how could i proceed?

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Re: Binding Configuration usage [message #1698313 is a reply to message #1698243]

Sat, 13 June 2015 07:18

Dennis Nobel

Messages: 166
Registered: September 2014

Senior Member

Hi Dirk,

actually it is not yet clearly defined how the configuration of a whole binding comes into the system. Or at least the Paper UI does not support it. So the specification of the configuration in the binding.xml is not used at all.

But what you can do is using the general configuration mechanism by defining variables in the "smarthome.cfg" file. You can define properties there based on a PID, which you need to specify in the Declarative Service XML of your ThingHandlerFactory for example. The activate method of the ThingHandlerFactory is then called with the according configuration parameters.

That way you can also inject the configuration in each ThingHandler.

Regards

Dennis

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Re: Binding Configuration usage [message #1698557 is a reply to message #1698313]

Tue, 16 June 2015 12:01

Kai Kreuzer

Messages: 673
Registered: December 2011

Senior Member

Hi Dirk,

The idea of the config-description in the binding.xml is mainly to provide some meta-information about configuration possibilities through the Configuration Admin service (very similar to MetaType, but sharing the same definition as we have for Things etc.).
I think it would make sense if we change the archetype to directly make the ThingHandlerFactory take config admin settings. As Dennis says, the simplest way to set the configuration is through the smarthome.cfg file now, but I would hope that we have a general support for Config Admin settings in the Paper UI some when.

Best regards,
Kai

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