// Encodes the label information to the required specifications of Lowes and returns the encoded string
public string EncodeLowesManufacturingInformation()
{
int modelEncodingNumber = 0;
ulong encodedLabelNumber = 0;
// Check to see if this is a test label
if (!this.Product.SKU.Equals(TestSku))
{
modelEncodingNumber = (int)Product.ModelEncodingNumber;
if (modelEncodingNumber == InvalidModelEncodingNumber)
{
return(string.Empty);
}
}
// Takes the information of the label and encodes it into the required Lowes format
encodedLabelNumber |= ((ulong)this.Tester);
encodedLabelNumber |= ((ulong)this.Station << StationOffset);
encodedLabelNumber |= ((ulong)this.Site << SiteOffset);
// Get the last two digits of the year (2015 = 15)
encodedLabelNumber |= ((ulong)(this.Date.Year % 100) << DateYearOffset);
encodedLabelNumber |= ((ulong)this.Date.Day << DateDayOffset);
// Month encoding starts at 0 (Jan)
encodedLabelNumber |= ((ulong)(this.Date.Month - 1) << DateMonthOffset);
// Board Revision is being passed in as a character, and therefore needs to be converted back to an int
encodedLabelNumber |= ((ulong)(BoardRevision.CharToRevision((char)this.HardwareVersion)) << HWRevisionOffset);
encodedLabelNumber |= ((ulong)modelEncodingNumber << ModelEncodingNumberOffset);
byte[] encodedLabelNumberBytesArray = BitConverter.GetBytes(encodedLabelNumber);
// Put the encodedLabelNumberBytesArray into a big endian format
Array.Reverse(encodedLabelNumberBytesArray);
// Array for final encoded information
byte[] euiEncodedLabelNumber = new byte[encodedLabelNumberBytesArray.Length + EUI.Length];
// Concatenate the two arrays together
EUI.CopyTo(euiEncodedLabelNumber, 0);
encodedLabelNumberBytesArray.CopyTo(euiEncodedLabelNumber, EUI.Length);
// Convert the Byte array into a string of hex digits
return(BitConverter.ToString(euiEncodedLabelNumber).Replace("-", ""));
}