Refactor / improve python modbus (#1581)

* fix(plc4py/umas): Start to add write support

* build(deps): bump github.com/stretchr/testify in /plc4go (#1439)

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* build(deps): bump golang.org/x/tools from 0.18.0 to 0.19.0 in /plc4go (#1440)

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* build(deps): bump logback.version from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1 (#1435)

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* build(deps): bump github.com/gdamore/tcell/v2 in /plc4go (#1438)

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* build(deps): bump golang.org/x/net from 0.21.0 to 0.22.0 in /plc4go (#1441)

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* build(deps): bump jakarta.activation:jakarta.activation-api (#1436)

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* fix(plc4j/genericcan) Fix of generic CAN driver and CAN transports after recent releases.

Signed-off-by: Łukasz Dywicki <luke@code-house.org>

* chore: Disabled a flaky test in GO

* docs: Updated the url for the opie tool

* chore: Updated vendor ids

* docs: Added some information on the site plugin and the asciidoctor plugin.

* chore: Updated vendor ids

* build: Continued fine-tuning the reproducible build release-scripts.

* chore: Updated vendor ids

* feat: The S7 driver now returns supporting S7, if the connected device is an S7-300.

* fix: Fixed logging in the example.

* refactor: Made the "protocol" accessible in the AbstractPlcConnection

* refactor: Added S7-400 to the list of supported devices.

* fix: Fixed the dependency usage error.

* Fix/s7async (#1451)

* Change type transfer in cyclic subscription from byte[] to PlcValue. Accepts cyclic subscription to bits.

* Add short pattern to tag subscription.

* Corrects short tag handling in CYC subscriptions. In observation./karaf

* Modified the cyclical subscription system. TODO time base management fpr CYC.

* Fixed time base handling for cyclical subscriptions. Subscription routine for changes is added experimentally.

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* build(deps): bump com.google.googlejavaformat:google-java-format (#1449)

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* build(deps): bump logback.version from 1.5.1 to 1.5.3 (#1448)

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* build(deps): bump com.gradle:common-custom-user-data-maven-extension (#1434)

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* Update PlcRawByteArray.java (#1453)

Removed method duplicate

* chore: Disabled some OPC-UA tests, that were continuously failing the build.

* chore: Disabled some OPC-UA tests, that were continuously failing the build.

* feat: Added a new flag allowing to disable tests on Jenkins. Added this to the flaky OPC-UA tests and re-enabled them.

* build(deps-dev): bump org.apache.commons:commons-compress (#1456)

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* build(deps): bump org.awaitility:awaitility from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 (#1455)

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* docs: Added "slave-id" to the description of the unit-identifier.

* chore: Disabled the OpcuaPlcDriverTest as it also seems to regularly fail on GitHub actions.

* build(deps): bump org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin (#1460)

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* build(deps): bump com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations (#1461)

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* build(deps): bump org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-dependencies (#1462)

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* docs: Updated some documentation on the code-generation.

* refactor: Renamed the paddingField paddingCondition to timesPadding

* chore: Removed some unneeded code.

* chore: Updated vendor ids

* chore: Cleaned up in the sandbox

* fix(plc4py): type extensions module added to setup.py

* fix(plc4py): Move out of sandbox

* chore(sandbox): Remove the Sandbox Directory

* chore(plc4px): Remove manual test

* feat(plc4x/modbus): Add support for unit-id option for modbus tags.

Introduce support for tag config at the tag level.
Closes #1234.

* build(deps): bump nl.jqno.equalsverifier:equalsverifier (#1467)

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* build(deps): bump org.cyclonedx:cyclonedx-maven-plugin (#1466)

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* build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-remote-resources-plugin (#1465)

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* build(deps): bump org.aspectj:aspectjweaver from 1.9.21.1 to 1.9.22 (#1475)

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* build(deps): bump jakarta.xml.bind:jakarta.xml.bind-api (#1474)

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* build(deps): bump com.google.guava:guava from 33.0.0-jre to 33.1.0-jre (#1473)

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* build(deps): bump golang.org/x/net from 0.22.0 to 0.23.0 in /plc4go (#1477)

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* build(deps): bump mockito.version from 5.10.0 to 5.11.0 (#1478)

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* build(deps): bump io.swagger:swagger-annotations from 1.6.13 to 1.6.14 (#1479)

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* build(deps): bump org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin (#1480)

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* Update PlcCHAR.java add Character type check to of method (#1489)

As the API uses the of method to get the PlcCHAR object passing a char to API methods lead to errors, because internally the of method was used convert the passed object.

* build(deps): bump golang.org/x/net from 0.23.0 to 0.24.0 in /plc4go (#1488)

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* build(deps): bump groovy.version from 4.0.18 to 4.0.20 (#1486)

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* build(deps): bump org.jacoco:jacoco-maven-plugin from 0.8.11 to 0.8.12 (#1485)

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* build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-source-plugin (#1484)

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* build(deps): bump golang.org/x/tools from 0.19.0 to 0.20.0 in /plc4go (#1487)

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* fix: A compilation error.

* refactor: Moved the examples, integrations and other extra stuff into the new plc4x-extras repository (#1483)

* refactor: Moved the examples, integrations and other extra stuff into the new plc4x-extras repository

* refactor: Cleaned up some of the managed dependencies.

* refactor: Updated some of the go-tools used in the build

* fix: Fixed the issues causing problems building PLC4C

* fix: A compilation error.

* fix: Fixed an error in the code-generation for C which only appeared in the code-gen testsuite.

* fix: Fixed an error in the code-generation for C which only appeared in the code-gen testsuite.

* fix: Disabling "CodeQL analysis" step as it's failing and I can't see from the output why.

* fix: Disabling "Trivy Scan" workflow as it's randomy failing and I can't see from the output why.

* chore: Updated the issue-tracker settings to point to GitHub instead of Jira

* build(deps): bump nl.jqno.equalsverifier:equalsverifier (#1490)

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* build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin (#1491)

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* fix(plc4py): Fix exception on closing the connection

* fix(plc4py): Fix connection lost exception being raised

* fix(plc4py): set test to manual

* fix(plc4py): Got rid of returning future, starting to understand it a bit more now ;)

* build(deps): bump jakarta.annotation:jakarta.annotation-api (#1494)

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* build(deps): bump io.netty:netty-bom from 4.1.107.Final to 4.1.108.Final (#1493)

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* fix(plc4py): Add to dependabot

* build(deps): bump pytest-mock from 3.12.0 to 3.14.0 in /plc4py (#1501)

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* build(deps): bump identify from 2.5.33 to 2.5.35 in /plc4py (#1500)

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* build(deps): bump packaging from 23.2 to 24.0 in /plc4py (#1499)

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* build(deps): bump pytest-asyncio from 0.23.5 to 0.23.6 in /plc4py (#1498)

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* build(deps): bump build from 1.0.3 to 1.2.1 in /plc4py (#1496)

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* fix(plc4py): Use packet length estimator to be able to handle multiple packets in a queue

* Update apache-kafka links to plc4x extra

* feat(plc4go): change to TestingLog interface for TestLogger

* build(deps): bump com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-jsr310 (#1497)

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* build(deps): bump com.gradle:common-custom-user-data-maven-extension (#1492)

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* build(deps): bump mypy from 1.8.0 to 1.9.0 in /plc4py (#1502)

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* build(deps): bump black from 24.1.1 to 24.3.0 in /plc4py (#1503)

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* build(deps): bump filelock from 3.13.1 to 3.13.4 in /plc4py (#1504)

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* build(deps): bump virtualenv from 20.25.0 to 20.25.1 in /plc4py (#1506)

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* build(deps): bump typing-extensions from 4.9.0 to 4.11.0 in /plc4py (#1505)

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* build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-invoker-plugin (#1514)

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* build(deps): bump org.asciidoctor:asciidoctorj from 2.5.11 to 2.5.12 (#1515)

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* build(deps): bump com.google.googlejavaformat:google-java-format (#1516)

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* build(deps): bump coverage from 7.4.1 to 7.4.4 in /plc4py (#1511)

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* build(deps): bump pytest from 8.0.0 to 8.1.1 in /plc4py (#1510)

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* build(deps): bump pre-commit from 3.6.0 to 3.7.0 in /plc4py (#1512)

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* build(deps): bump pip-tools from 7.3.0 to 7.4.1 in /plc4py (#1513)

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* fix(plc4j/ads): Fixed List serialization passing invalid datatype for child elements (#1517)

* feat: Changed the ManualTest to allow enabling read and write requests separately as well as disabling the single-item requests and also test multi-item writes.

* fix(plc4j/opcua): Cleanup discovery connection resources. 

Update of unit test to verify method exits.

Closes #1101.

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* fix(plc4j/ads): Invalid size writing multiple tags (#1524)

* fix: Added the struct back to the manual ads test.

* fix(plc4j/opcua): Make sure UA subscription acknowledges are retained over publish cycles. 

Closes #1364.

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* chore: Updated vendor ids

* chore: Addressed most high severity sonarcloud issues

* build(deps): bump black from 24.3.0 to 24.4.0 in /plc4py (#1528)

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* build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin (#1525)

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* build(deps): bump org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-compiler-api (#1526)

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* build(deps): bump com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations (#1527)

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* build(deps): bump logback.version from 1.5.3 to 1.5.5 (#1531)

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* build(deps): bump io.netty:netty-bom from 4.1.108.Final to 4.1.109.Final (#1532)

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* chore: Updated vendor ids

* feat: Added a default-payload-byte-order option to the modbus driver in order to support devices with little-endian encoding of payload.

* chore: Addressed more of the high severity sonarcloud issues

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* chore: Made line-breaks in the configuration option descriptions get output as line-breaks

* chore: Updated vendor ids

* feat: Added device-group options for local, remote and remote2 to the S7 config.

* chore: Disabled the OpcuaSubscriptionHandleTest all together as it also seems to be randomly failing on GitHub Actions.

* feat: Added a "Since" annotation that provides information on when a configuration-option was added.

* feat: Create a source bundle for PLC4C

* chore: Added newly generated files.

* build(deps): bump org.codehaus.mojo:extra-enforcer-rules (#1548)

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* build(deps): bump logback.version from 1.5.5 to 1.5.6 (#1549)

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* feat(plc4j/api): Convert the string address into a PlcTag (#1468)

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* add setter for transportEndpoint

* Convert the string address into a PlcTag.

* rename string tag address to parseTagAddressSafe

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* build(deps): bump commons-logging:commons-logging from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1 (#1553)

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* Change Python version to 3.10+

macOS ARM version fails for python version 3.7 to 3.9.

* fix(plc4py/umas): Start to add write support

* rebase umas

* Some small changes to python code

* add additional comments in python code

* fix(plc4py): Fix optional fields and clean some template stuff up

* Reset to capture timeouts

catch all in case it gets into the situation where we get stuck in a loop.

* Revert "Reset to capture timeouts"

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* fix(plc4py/umas): Start to add write support

* add @pytest.mark.xfail so that PLC4Py build succeeds (to be changed once the umas tests are working)

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About Apache PLC4X

Apache PLC4X is an effort to create a set of libraries for communicating with industrial grade programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in a uniform way. We are planning on shipping libraries for usage in:

  1. Java
  2. Go
  3. C (not ready for usage)
  4. Python (not ready for usage)
  5. C# (.Net) (not ready for usage - abandoned)

PLC4X also integrates with other Apache projects, such as:

And brings stand-alone (Java) utils like:

  • OPC-UA Server: Enables you to communicate with legacy devices using PLC4X with OPC-UA.
  • PLC4X Server: Enables you to communicate with a central PLC4X Server which then communicates with devices via PLC4X.

It also provides (Java) tools for usage inside an application:

  • Connection Cache: New implementation of our framework for re-using and sharing PLC-connections
  • Connection Pool: Old implementation of our framework for re-using and sharing PLC-connections
  • OPM: Object-Plc-Mapping: Allows binding PLC fields to properties in java POJOs similar to JPA
  • Scraper: Utility to do scheduled and repeated data collection.

Getting started

Depending on the programming language, the usage will differ, therefore please go to the Getting Started on the PLC4X website to look up the language of choice.

Java

NOTE: Currently the Java version which supports building of all parts of Apache PLC4X is at least Java 19 (We have tested all versions up to Java 21), however it's only the Java Tool UI, that requires this right now. All other modules need at least Java 11.

See the PLC4J user guide on the website to start using PLC4X in your Java application: https://plc4x.apache.org/users/getting-started/plc4j.html

Developers

Environment

Currently, the project is configured to require the following software:

  1. Java 11 JDK: For running Maven in general as well as compiling the Java and Scala modules JAVA_HOME configured to point to that.
  2. Git (even when working on the source distribution)
  3. (Optional, for running all tests) libpcap/Npcap for raw socket tests in Java or use of passive-mode drivers
  4. (Optional, for building the website) Graphviz : For generating the graphs in the documentation

WARNING: The code generation uses a utility which requires some additional VM settings. When running a build from the root, the settings in the .mvn/jvm.config are automatically applied. When building only a sub-module, it is important to set the vm args: --add-exports jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api=ALL-UNNAMED --add-exports jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.file=ALL-UNNAMED --add-exports jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.parser=ALL-UNNAMED --add-exports jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.tree=ALL-UNNAMED --add-exports jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.util=ALL-UNNAMED. In Intellij for example set these in the IDE settings under: Preferences | Build, Execution, Deployment | Build Tools | Maven | Runner: JVM Options.

A more detailed description is available on our website:

https://plc4x.apache.org/developers/preparing/index.html

For building PLC4C we also need:

All requirements are retrieved by the build itself

For building PLC4Go we also need:

All requirements are retrieved by the build itself

For building PLC4Py we also need:

  1. Python 3.7 or higher
  2. Python pyenv

For building PLC4Net we also need:

  1. DotNet SDK 6.0

With this setup you will be able to build the Java part of PLC4X.

The when doing a full build, we automatically run a prerequisite check and fail the build with an explanation, if not all requirements are meet.

Building with Docker

If you don't want to bother setting up the environment on your normal system, and you have Docker installed, you can also build everything in a Docker container:

   docker compose up

This will build a local Docker container able to build all parts of PLC4X and will run a maven build of the local directory inside this container.

The default build will run a local release-build, so it can also be used to ensure reproducible builds when releasing.

Per default will it store files locally:

  • Downloaded maven artifacts will go to out/.repository
  • Deployed artifacts will go to out/.local-snapshots-dir

The reason for this is, that otherwise the artifacts would be packaged in with the source-release artifact, resulting in a 12GB or more zip archive. However, saving it in the main target directory would make the build delete the local repo every time a mvn clean is run. The out directory however is excluded per default from the assembly descriptor, and therefore it is not included in the source zim.

Getting Started

You must have at least Java 11 installed on your system and connectivity to Maven Central (for downloading external third party dependencies). Maven 3.6 is required to build, so be sure it's installed and available on your system.

NOTE: When using Java 21 currently the Apache Kafka integration module is excluded from the build as one of the plugins it requires has proven to be incompatible with this version.

NOTE: There is a convenience Maven-Wrapper installed in the repo, when used, this automatically downloads and installs Maven. If you want to use this, please use ./mvnw or mvnw instead of the normal mvn command.

NOTE: When running from sources-zip, the mvnw might not be executable on Mac or Linux. This can easily be fixed by running the following command in the directory.

$ chmod +x mvnw

NOTE: If you are working on a Windows system, please use mvnw.cmd instead of ./mvnw in the following build commands.

Build PLC4X Java jars and install them in your local maven repository

./mvnw install

You can now construct Java applications that use PLC4X. The PLC4X examples are a good place to start and are available inside the plc4j/examples directory.

The Go drivers can be built by enabling the with-go profile:

./mvnw -P with-go install 

The Java drivers can be built by enabling the with-java profile:

./mvnw -P with-java install 

The C# / .Net implementation is currently in a work in progress state. In order to be able to build the C# / .Net module, you currently need to activate the: with-dotnet profiles.

./mvnw -P with-dotnet install

The Python implementation is currently in a somewhat unclean state and still needs refactoring. In order to be able to build the Python module, you currently need to activate the: with-python profiles.

./mvnw -P with-python install

In order to build everything the following command should work:

./mvnw -P with-c,with-dotnet,with-go,with-java,with-python,enable-all-checks,update-generated-code install

Community

Join the PLC4X community by using one of the following channels. We'll be glad to help!

Mailing Lists

Subscribe to the following mailing lists:

See also: https://plc4x.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

Twitter

Get the latest PLC4X news on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ApachePlc4x

Contributing

There are multiple forms in which you can become involved with the PLC4X project.

These are, but are not limited to:

  • Providing information and insights
  • Testing PLC4X and providing feedback
  • Submitting Pull Requests
  • Filing Bug-Reports
  • Active communication on our mailing lists
  • Promoting the project (articles, blog posts, talks at conferences)
  • Documentation

We are a very friendly bunch so don’t be afraid to step forward. If you'd like to contribute to PLC4X, have a look at our contribution guide!

Licensing

Apache PLC4X is released under the Apache License Version 2.0.