internal void SendUpdate(ICommand[] outputStates, Data _Data, CommandHandler _commandHandler)
{
if (serialPortIsValid && isSerialPortOpen)
{
byte[] _header = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(_Data.Header == null ? string.Empty : _Data.Header);
var headerLen = _header.Length; // compute this here so we don't have to compute it in the loop
byte[] _footer = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(_Data.Footer == null ? string.Empty : _Data.Footer);
byte[] _packet = new byte[headerLen + outputStates.Length + _footer.Length];
_header.CopyTo(_packet, 0);
_footer.CopyTo(_packet, _packet.Length - _footer.Length);
ICommand command = null;
// Why do we use the command handler? For this module, it just seems like unnecessary overhead.
for (int i = 0; i < outputStates.Length; i++)
{
_commandHandler.Reset();
command = outputStates[i];
if (command != null)
{
command.Dispatch(_commandHandler);
}
_packet[i + headerLen] = _commandHandler.Value;
}
if (_packet.Length > 0)
{
_SerialPort.Write(_packet, 0, _packet.Length);
}
}
}
public Module()
{
_commandHandler = new CommandHandler();
DataPolicyFactory = new DataPolicyFactory();
//set 2 minute timer before retrying to access com port
_retryTimer = new System.Timers.Timer(120000);
_retryTimer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(_retryTimer_Elapsed);
_retryCounter = 0;
}
public Module()
{
_commandHandler = new CommandHandler();
DataPolicyFactory = new DataPolicyFactory();
}
