This version introduces a new feature to bundle several variables to structures and exchange them through one service via SIL Kit.
Added
- Added an option 'AlwaysUseStructuredNamingConvention' to the configuration's root level (default: false).
If set, it activate the structured naming convention detection (and therefore the variable aggregation feature) even if it is not set in the FMU's model description. - Added a new communication interface description format that must be provided via
-ior--fmu-importer-communication-interface-fileif variables shall be aggregated to structures - Added support for optional data types.
Optional data types are used in SIL Kit to indicate if the provided data (e.g., a structure member) contains a payload or not.
Optional data types can be defined in the communication interface description and in the configuration file by appending a question mark at the end of the data type that should be optional. - Added label support.
By default, the FMU Importer does not use any labels when creating publish / subscribe services
The "Instance" and "Namespace" labels can be set by configuringInstanceandNamespacein the root of the configuration file
These labels allow to limit the communication between services with the same namespace / instance name (e.g., if multiple instances of the same FMU are participating in a simulation) - Added a new tool (Communication Interface Exporter) to generate a communication interface from an FMU (see documentation for details, or use the --help argument when calling the exporter)
Changed
- If the value of an enumeration-typed variable is set, strings are now considered referring to an enumerator's name, whereas integers refer to an enumerators' value
- Temporarily extracted FMUs are now deleted by default
- If there is a folder with the extracted FMU in the same directory as the FMU, this extracted content will be used and remains there after the FMU Importer stops
- Otherwise, the FMU is now extracted to a temporary directory. This directory and its contents are deleted after the simulation run.
- Reworked the vCDL Exporter
- New CLI (see documentation for details, or use the --help argument when calling the exporter)
- Now supports exporting vCDL files based on an FMU or on a communication interface description
- Removed the option to export multiple FMUs to a single vCDL
- Updated SIL Kit to version 4.0.50
Fixed
- If an error occurred while an FMU is loaded, its error will now be handled like other errors (was printed to console before)
- Fixed incorrect export of array variables by the vCDL Exporter (did not detect array variables correctly and exported them as scalars before)