public static LabTask CreateLabTask(LabAppInfo appInfo, Coupon expCoupon, Ticket expTicket) { // set defaults DateTime startTime = DateTime.UtcNow; long duration = -1L; long experimentID = 0; int status = -1; string statusViName = null; string statusTemplate = null; string templatePath = null; LabDB dbManager = new LabDB(); string qualName = null; string fullName = null; // set defaults LabTask labTask = null; LabViewTask task = null; VirtualInstrument vi = null; LabViewInterface lvi = null; ////Parse experiment payload, only get what is needed string payload = expTicket.payload; XmlQueryDoc expDoc = new XmlQueryDoc(payload); string essService = expDoc.Query("ExecuteExperimentPayload/essWebAddress"); string startStr = expDoc.Query("ExecuteExperimentPayload/startExecution"); string durationStr = expDoc.Query("ExecuteExperimentPayload/duration"); string groupName = expDoc.Query("ExecuteExperimentPayload/groupName"); string userName = expDoc.Query("ExecuteExperimentPayload/userName"); if ((startStr != null) && (startStr.Length > 0)) { startTime = DateUtil.ParseUtc(startStr); } if ((durationStr != null) && (durationStr.Length > 0) && !(durationStr.CompareTo("-1") == 0)) { duration = Convert.ToInt64(durationStr); } if (appInfo.extraInfo != null && appInfo.extraInfo.Length > 0) { // Note should have either statusVI or template pair // Add Option for VNCserver access try { XmlQueryDoc viDoc = new XmlQueryDoc(appInfo.extraInfo); statusViName = viDoc.Query("extra/status"); statusTemplate = viDoc.Query("extra/statusTemplate"); templatePath = viDoc.Query("extra/templatePath"); } catch (Exception e) { string err = e.Message; } } // log the experiment for debugging Utilities.WriteLog("Experiment: " + experimentID + " Start: " + DateUtil.ToUtcString(startTime) + " \tduration: " + duration); long statusSpan = DateUtil.SecondsRemaining(startTime, duration); if ((appInfo.server != null) && (appInfo.server.Length > 0) && (appInfo.port > 0)) { lvi = new LabViewRemote(appInfo.server, appInfo.port); } else { lvi = new LabViewInterface(); } if (!lvi.IsLoaded(appInfo.application)) { vi = lvi.loadVI(appInfo.path, appInfo.application); vi.OpenFrontPanel(true, FPStateEnum.eVisible); } else { vi = lvi.GetVI(appInfo.path, appInfo.application); } if (vi == null) { status = -1; string err = "Unable to Find: " + appInfo.path + @"\" + appInfo.application; Utilities.WriteLog(err); throw new Exception(err); } // Get qualifiedName qualName = lvi.qualifiedName(vi); fullName = appInfo.path + @"\" + appInfo.application; status = lvi.GetVIStatus(vi); Utilities.WriteLog("CreateLabTask - " + qualName + ": VIstatus: " + status); switch (status) { case -10: throw new Exception("Error GetVIStatus: " + status); break; case -1: // VI not in memory throw new Exception("Error GetVIStatus: " + status); break; case 0: // eBad == 0 break; case 1: // eIdle == 1 vi in memory but not running FPStateEnum fpState = vi.FPState; if (fpState != FPStateEnum.eVisible) { vi.OpenFrontPanel(true, FPStateEnum.eVisible); } vi.ReinitializeAllToDefault(); break; case 2: // eRunTopLevel: this should be the LabVIEW application break; case 3: // eRunning //Unless the Experiment is reentrant it should be stopped and be reset. if(!appInfo.reentrant){ int stopStatus = lvi.StopVI(vi); if (stopStatus != 0) { lvi.AbortVI(vi); } vi.ReinitializeAllToDefault(); } break; default: throw new Exception("Error GetVIStatus: unknown status: " + status); break; } try { lvi.SetBounds(vi, 0, 0, appInfo.width, appInfo.height); Utilities.WriteLog("SetBounds: " + appInfo.application); } catch (Exception sbe) { Utilities.WriteLog("SetBounds exception: " + Utilities.DumpException(sbe)); } lvi.SubmitAction("unlockvi", lvi.qualifiedName(vi)); Utilities.WriteLog("unlockvi Called: "); // Set up in-memory and database task control structures DataSourceManager dsManager = null; // Create the labTask & store in database; labTask = dbManager.InsertTask(appInfo.appID, experimentID, groupName, startTime, duration, LabTask.eStatus.Scheduled, expTicket.couponId, expTicket.issuerGuid, null); if (labTask != null) { //Convert the generic LabTask to a LabViewTask task = new LabViewTask(labTask); } if ((statusTemplate != null) && (statusTemplate.Length > 0)) { statusViName = lvi.CreateFromTemplate(templatePath, statusTemplate, task.taskID.ToString()); } if (((essService != null) && (essService.Length > 0)) && ((appInfo.dataSources != null) && (appInfo.dataSources.Length > 0))) { // Create DataSourceManager to manage dataSocket connections dsManager = new DataSourceManager(); // set up an experiment storage handler ExperimentStorageProxy ess = new ExperimentStorageProxy(); ess.OperationAuthHeaderValue = new OperationAuthHeader(); ess.OperationAuthHeaderValue.coupon = expCoupon; ess.Url = essService; dsManager.essProxy = ess; dsManager.ExperimentID = experimentID; dsManager.AppKey = qualName; string[] sockets = appInfo.dataSources.Split(','); // Use the experimentID as the storage parameter foreach (string s in sockets) { LVDataSocket reader = new LVDataSocket(); dsManager.AddDataSource(reader); if (s.Contains("=")) { string[] nv = s.Split('='); reader.Type = nv[1]; reader.Connect(nv[0], LabDataSource.READ_AUTOUPDATE); } else { reader.Connect(s, LabDataSource.READ_AUTOUPDATE); } } TaskProcessor.Instance.AddDataManager(task.taskID, dsManager); } string taskData = null; taskData = LabTask.constructTaskXml(appInfo.appID, fullName,appInfo.rev, statusViName, essService); dbManager.SetTaskData(task.taskID, taskData); task.data = taskData; TaskProcessor.Instance.Add(task); return task; }