Hi David,
the project org.eclipse.mdm.openatfx.mdf generates an ATFX layer around a given MDF3 or MF4 file, which has to be sorted (please see
the MDF specification for details regarding sorted MDF files).
Those ATFX files are usually used for imports into so called measurement systems which are driven by ODS servers. Therefore the reading
of the measured data may be done by the ODS server, once the ATFX file has been imported.
However I made a quick test with one of the MF4 test files (bundled in this project) and was able to read the stored channel data.
1.
Is there an example/test case where the actual measurement data is read from the file?
o
See attached file (Example.java), I hope it gets you started
J
o
Within the ATFX session you may find one or two measurements, the second one is created one the fly, once needed:
i. „measurement“ will contain for each data group (DGBLOCK) with exactly
one channel group „CGBLOCK“ a so called SubMatrix.
A ValueMatrix is spanned over the SubMatrix and is used to read the stored measured data per colum
„CNBLOCK“.
ii. „measurement_lookup“ will only be created for channels „CNBLOCK“s
which have lookup tables (value to value mappings, value range tot ext mappings, etc.).
You have to follow the same rules to access its data. The given example should print the values
for both measurements. Try it with your test files…
o
The library may create additional files next to your MF4 file in the following cases:
i. Validation bits of measured data are stored in a non ODS
compliant way, therefore the library exports them into an additional binary file
ii. Channel data with a rational conversion can not be represented
in an ODS compliant way, therefore they are fullly calculated and stored in an additional binary file
2.
I'm confused about the keys that are used to retrieve ApplicationElements and InstanceElements from the ApplicationStruture.
Is there some resource describing how to access the file and where the keys come from? I tried to compare it to the keys shown by the MDFValidator by VECTOR but they do not seem to match.
o
See the comments in example. In short, the keys you see in the MDFValidator are MDF specific and are reinterpreted and stored
in an ODS compliant way.
3.
I'm unfamiliar with the ASAM OO-API and I couldn't find a guide to the API. Also I couldn't find sources and JavaDoc
for the ods-5.3.0.jar to view this information in Eclipse while looking at the tests.
o
The full specification may be downloaded for ASAM members for free: https://www.asam.net/standards/detail/ods/older/
Additional notes:
·
The library may not support all possible channel configurations you may have in your environment (it is not a full implementation
of the MDF specifications)
·
You may want to write a JNI wrapper for this library https://www.turbolab.de/mdf_libf.htm
·
You may use the other project org.eclipse.mdm.mdfsorter to sort unsorted MDF files
Regards
Viktor
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Im Auftrag von David Kolb
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. März 2019 14:08
An: mdmbl-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: Re: [mdmbl-dev] Reading MF4 files with org.eclipse.mdm.openatfx.mdf
Hi Angelika,
thanks for the quick answer.
Could you tell us which context you are working?
We are developing a data analysis tool called
KNIME Analytics Platform. It has a visual interface where you can build so called workflows that model a data pipeline with operations on the data modelled as nodes. Some users from our community would be interested in a node to read MDF files in our tool
and do some analysis on the measurement data. As our tool is written in Java, I was investigating possible Java libraries that we could use to read MDF and that we could integrate.
Are you interested in the openatfx.mdf code or in the underlaying openatfx driver?
Actually, I'm not 100% sure. If I understood correctly, openatfx.mdf provides functionality to read MDF files using the openatfx driver? However, I was having troubles reading the actual measurement data from the a MF4 file. I cloned
this repository and had a look at the test cases. Specifically I have the following questions:
1) Is there an example/test case where the actual measurement data is read from the file?
2) I'm confused about the keys that are used to retrieve ApplicationElements and InstanceElements from the ApplicationStruture. Is there some resource describing how to access the file and where the keys come from? I tried to compare it to the keys shown
by the
MDFValidator by VECTOR but they do not seem to match.
3) I'm unfamiliar with the ASAM OO-API and I couldn't find a guide to the API. Also I couldn't find sources and JavaDoc for the ods-5.3.0.jar to view this information in Eclipse while looking at the tests.
Thanks for your help,
David
Am 07.03.2019 um 09:39 schrieb Angelika Wittek, openMDM(R):
Dear David,
yes this is the right place to ask questions about the Eclipse mdmbl project. Currently we are busy, so an answer will be delayed up to next week.
Are you interested in the openatfx.mdf code or in the underlaying openatfx driver? That library is hosted on sourgeforge by Christian:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/openatfx/
Could you tell us which context you are working? Our project is associated with the Eclipse openMDM Working Group and we are always interested about the use cases of our users.
Thanks
Angelika
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mail: awittek.openMDM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
phone: +49 1577 1900802
Am 06.03.19 um 10:21 schrieb David Kolb:
Dear MDM|BL Development Team,
I'm a working student at the company KNIME and I'm currently investigating Java libraries which provide functionality to read MF4 files. We'd like to include this functionality into our open source software.
After some search, I stumbled upon:
https://git.eclipse.org/c/mdmbl/org.eclipse.mdm.openatfx.mdf.git/about/ which lead me to this mailing list in the included NOTICE.txt of the Git repository. As the author of the project is marked as Christian Rechner, AUDI AG (here),
I was confused who to contact regarding some questions about the usage of the library. Specifically, I am having troubles reading the actual numeric content of some MF4 files, finding examples, and finding documentation about the ASAM OO-API.
If this is not the right place to ask these questions, could you maybe point me into the right direction? Otherwise, I would be happy to elaborate on my questions and very thankful about your support.
Kind regards,
David Kolb
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