SiLA2.Client 7.4.2

Introduction

.NET 7 implementation of the SiLA2 Standard (https://sila-standard.com/)

• Platform-independent
• SiLA2.Server even runs on embedded Linux Host as recommended AspNetCore-Process
• Feature-To-Proto-Generation by XSLT
  • SiLA2 Core Features included in SiLA2.dll
  • Additional Features should be part of Feature-Implementation Assemblies (just add your features and protos in MSBuild Targets ProtoPreparation & ProtoGeneration like it is done in Assemblies TemperatureController.Features.csproj or ShakerController.Features.csproj)
• Extensible InProcess Server Web Frontend included (based on Blazor (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor) which supports "server push" functionality)

• Optional InProcess-Database-Module (based on SQLite) with basic User Management which can be easily extended.
• Optional InProcess-Document-Database-Module (based on LiteDB) named SiLA2.Database.NoSQL which can be used as AnIML data storage...
• Optional Inter Process Communication Module (SiLA2.IPC.NetMQ) for Socket Communication...compatible with ZeroMQ (https://zeromq.org/)
• Optional AnIML Module offering the AnIML Domain Model as C# classes generated from official AnIML schemas (https://github.com/AnIML/schemas)
• Optional Component to manage Encryption and Certifcates

If you want to see all the Modules and Components you should start SiLA2.Temperature.Server.App and click >> https://localhost:5001 Running the Server the first time, you´ll have to add an exception to your browser once due to the self-signed certificate which was created by the Server if there´s none.

Prerequisites

• Linux / macOS
  • You´ll need the .NET 7 SDK >> https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/7.0
  • It´s not necessary to build applications with a GUI but if you do so an IDE like Visual Studio Code ( >> https://code.visualstudio.com/ ) would be convenient
• Windows
  • Download free IDE Visual Studio 2022 Community ( >> https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/de/vs/community/ ), use commercial Visual Studio 2022 Version or Visual Studio Code as well
  • .NET 7 SDK is included in Visual Studio 2022...if you want to use Visual Studio Code or other IDEs you´ll have to download it on your own (see link above)

Getting Started

• Clone Repo
  • Please be sure fetching sila_base submodule by
    • checking out the Repository with git-submodules recursively
      • git clone --recurse-submodules https://gitlab.com/SiLA2/sila_csharp.git
    • or check out the Repository and run following commands
      • git submodule init
      • git submodule update
• Run gRPC-Server
  • SiLA2.Temperature.Server.Basic.App or
  • SiLA2.Temperature.Server.App (containing optional WebFrontend- and DatabaseModule)
    • After having started the SilaServer process you can also follow Link https://<server-hostname-or-server-ip>:13742 (in Debug-Mode https://localhost:5001) to open a SilaServer-WebFrontend
    • In the SilaServer-WebFrontend you´ll find NavigationLink "User Management"-View to use SilaServer-Database. There´s also an example of how Server-Push-Feature can be used...just click on NavigationLink "Temperature" and hit button "Change Temperature"...
• Run SiLA2.Temperature.Client.App connecting automatically to SilaServer

Build your own Project based on official Nuget-Packages

• Created ASP.NET Core Application as SiLA2.Server Project
• Search for & reference SiLA2.* packages found at Nuget.org in Visual Studio or https://www.nuget.org/ ...use at least SiLA2.Core...
• Create *.sila.xml-Feature-File and include it like it was done in Example Project SiLA2.Referencing.Nuget.Features.csproj
• Implement the features you´ve defined in your *.sila.xml-Feature-File in your Feature-Assembly
• Reference your Feature-Assenbly in your SiLA2.Server Project
• Add MSBuild Targets ProtoPreparation & ProtoGeneration in your FeatureAssembly.csproj (like it is done in any of the ExampleFeature.csproj files)
• Create SilA2-Clients communicating with the SiLA2.Server...in this case you might want to use Nuget-Package SiLA2.Client...

Build and Test

• Just build Solution and run as described in "# Getting Started".
• Alternatively you could use the SiLA Universal Client (https://gitlab.com/SiLA2/universal-sila-client/sila_universal_client)...it´s still experimental and it could be possible that you have to register SiLA2 Servers manually by IP yet...
• If you have problems building the solution you might clean your Nuget-Cache by 'rmdir -r %UserProfile%.nuget\packages*' once...

Contribute

It´s Open Source (License >> MIT)...feel free to use or contribute. For Merge-Requests contact me by E-Mail >>> CPohl@inheco.com or Stefan Koch >>> koch@equicon.de

For Open Questions

Visit https://gitlab.com/SiLA2/sila_csharp/-/issues