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label taken from channel-type and not from overwritten channel definition [message #1781136]

Thu, 01 February 2018 14:56

Eclipse User

Hi,

I'm developing a new binding.
I have a channel-type in channels.xml:
<channel-type id="switchTimes">
<item-type>String</item-type>
<label>Switch Time</label>
<description>Switch times of Mon-Sun format: "XX:XX-XX:XX XX:XX-XX:XX".</description>
<category>Radiator</category>
</channel-type>

and I override this in radiator-fht80b.xml

<channel id="mondaySwitchTimes" typeId="switchTimes">
<label>Monday</label>
</channel>
<channel id="tuesdaySwitchTimes" typeId="switchTimes">
<label>Tuesday</label>
</channel>
<channel id="wednesdaySwitchTimes" typeId="switchTimes">
<label>Wednesday</label>
</channel>
<channel id="thursdaySwitchTimes" typeId="switchTimes">
<label>Thursday</label>
</channel>
<channel id="fridaySwitchTimes" typeId="switchTimes">
<label>Friday</label>
</channel>
<channel id="saturdaySwitchTimes" typeId="switchTimes">
<label>Saturday</label>
</channel>
<channel id="sundaySwitchTimes" typeId="switchTimes">
<label>Sunday</label>
</channel>

Using simple Mode for Item binding The Items will be named with the correct Weekdays - but using manual binding the item name will contain SwitchTime.

As a start I'm looking for the point in the source code where the new Item name is prepared, because GenericItem gets created with the wrong name.

Re: label taken from channel-type and not from overwritten channel definition [message #1781159 is a reply to message #1781136]

Fri, 02 February 2018 03:29

Eclipse User

What exactly do you mean by "using manual binding"? How do you do it? Via Paper UI? Via *.item file? Please precisely describe what steps are needed in order to reproduce it, otherwise it's quite hard to guess...

Re: label taken from channel-type and not from overwritten channel definition [message #1781255 is a reply to message #1781159]

Mon, 05 February 2018 02:02

Eclipse User

I'm using Paper UI
Make sure Configuration > System > Item Linking > Simple Mode is disabled.

1. In Configuration > Things > "ThingName" > "ChannelName" press the empty circle of said channel ("Tuesday").
2. In the dialogbox select "+Create new item".
3. In the now opened dialogbox "Link channel" the
name will be "FHT80b202_SwitchTime" and the
label will be "Switch Time".

If I had the channel with id="tuesdaySwitchTimes" I would expect to have as
name "FHT80b202_Tuesday" and as
label "Tuesday".

OK Im scanned the paperUI sources.
in /org.eclipse.smarthome.ui.paper/web-src/js/controllers/controller.things.view.js
in line 79: $scope.linkChannel = function(channelID, event, preSelect) {

In this function suggestedLabel is taken from the channeltype instead from the channel.
And the result of getItemNameSuggestion is also from channelType.

[Updated on: Mon, 05 February 2018 03:46] by Moderator

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