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Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806203]

Mon, 06 May 2019 04:21

Eclipse User

Hi,

I'm trying to establish a connection between 4diac and a software that runs on vmware. I use my PLC has a servers, i managed to send data to wmware but with 4 bytes more (i don't know why). And for the reception of the data from vmware, I constantly get DATA_TYPE_ERROR, even if I put FB with the right data input, in my case 104 bytes or 26 DWORD, I've even checked with wireshark :^(

Hope i was clear, Thanks,

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Re: Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806209 is a reply to message #1806203]

Mon, 06 May 2019 04:59

Eclipse User

Maybe because the arrays are not the same lengh. But I'm not sure

Re: Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806213 is a reply to message #1806209]

Mon, 06 May 2019 05:29

Eclipse User

Hi,

Jose is correct. Arrays with different sizes are different data types.

Best
Martin

Re: Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806223 is a reply to message #1806213]

Mon, 06 May 2019 07:50

Eclipse User

I don't get it, I'm supposed to send an array of 32 DWORDs and to receive 26 DWORDs. What am I supposed to do ?

Re: Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806237 is a reply to message #1806223]

Mon, 06 May 2019 12:45

Eclipse User

The "IEC 61499 compliance profile for feasibilty demonstrations" [1] defines that on sender and receiver side the arrays have to be of equal size. So you get the data type error as the decoding code gets over the network an array with 32 elements but only space for 26. What shoudl we do with the remaining 6? Therefore you have to connect your sever FB to a FB which has an input with an array of length 32. Maybe just expanding the receiver FB to 32 and ignore the last 6. If this is correct. This depends on your application.

Re: Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806263 is a reply to message #1806237]

Tue, 07 May 2019 04:06

Eclipse User

Thanks for your answer, I changed the input of my receiving FB as you said. But I still get errors. I tried other configurations but in any case I have the same result maybe the issue is not from 4diac ?

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Re: Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806264 is a reply to message #1806263]

Tue, 07 May 2019 04:18

Eclipse User

You have not connected anything on the SD_1 input of your server FB. When this input is not connected or not given a litaral with type spec (e.g., INT#12) the FB does not know what to do with it. Therefore the the data type error now could also come from this. For quick test you could remove the event connection from your RSP input. Do you want to send data back?

Re: Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806271 is a reply to message #1806264]

Tue, 07 May 2019 05:20

Eclipse User

I tried to connect the input of my sending (32DWORDs) on my receiving server but it's not effective either. I also tried to remove the connection from RSP intput but nothing came out.
For my application I want to have one server that receive data and one that send.

Thanks for your quick answers

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Re: Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806273 is a reply to message #1806271]

Tue, 07 May 2019 05:48

Eclipse User

I did a recap of your application and I noticed two things:
1. Where is your client FB? 1499 client server communication works such that you send data over a client with its request event this leads to an ind event on the corresponding server. The application can respond to the client with the RSP leading to a CNF on the CLIENT.
2. you are triggering the RSP event of the SERVER not as a result of the IND. You should not do it. The server will send you an IND event when it receives something

Re: Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806283 is a reply to message #1806273]

Tue, 07 May 2019 07:28

Eclipse User

My app communicate with a software that runs on vmware. The soft acts as two clients so on my app I have two server to communicate with him.

Re: Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806289 is a reply to message #1806283]

Tue, 07 May 2019 08:18

Eclipse User

Ah ok. What kind of software is that? What messages does it send? What is the message format? They way you configured your Server FBs 4diac FORTE is assuming that the messages are coming in the Asn.1 encoding defined in the "IEC 61499 compliance profile for feasibility demonstrations" [1]. If that is not the case then you need to write you an own decoding layer that is taking the message coming from the network and translate it to IEC 61131-3 datatypes.

Re: Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806292 is a reply to message #1806289]

Tue, 07 May 2019 08:38

Eclipse User

The soft is private but it uses TCP/IP and it sends a 104bytes of data, how can I write my own FB server ?
Thanks for taking your time to help me.

Re: Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806303 is a reply to message #1806292]

Tue, 07 May 2019 09:38

Eclipse User

The good news is you don't need to write a full server. You only need to write a communication layer. As starting point you can have a look at the raw layer. This layer takes in the recv method the data received and interprets it as string. For your communication layer you would need to implement the according decoding functionality in the recv method. Please also have a look on the documentation of 4diac FORTE's communication architecture: https://www.eclipse.org/4diac/en_help.php?helppage=html/development/forte_communicationArchitecture.html

Re: Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806305 is a reply to message #1806303]

Tue, 07 May 2019 09:59

Eclipse User

Ok, i'll check that.
thanks a lot Alois :^)

Re: Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806736 is a reply to message #1806303]

Tue, 14 May 2019 09:36

Eclipse User

Hi, it's me again.
I've came to the conclusion that I don't need the medium comLayer, I just want to communicate in TCP/IP without ASN.1 .
I tried to configure FORTE with Cmake for that, but now I can't deploy my app to the PLC.
Is it possible to do this ? Because it would be perfect if i could just have TCP/IP connection.

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Re: Issue with client/server and vmware [message #1806764 is a reply to message #1806736]

Tue, 14 May 2019 18:04

Eclipse User

You will need the com FBDk layer otherwise 4diac IDE cannot connect to your 4diac FORTE.

Also you will need some layer on top of our TCP/IP layer as the TCP/IP layer is designed such that it takes the data received from the network and hands it on to some upper layer. So you need some mechanism which takes transforms the bytes received into a IEC 61131-3 data type. Otherwise you will not be able to process it with an IEC 61131⁻3 function block.

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