Support ESI for Ethercat

[mgiaco]

Hi, I a wondering if there is any plan to support also ESI Format for Ethercat in the future?

[nimrof]

Hi @mgiaco, No official plan to support ESI format or anything related to Ethercat. This is the closest you get to a official plan: https://github.com/CANopenNode/CANopenEditor/issues/102

The internal/common format used in the project uses CanOpen EDS so AFIK it would be a big job to support Ethercat

[CANopenNode]

It depends, which information ESI file needs. According to wikipedia, Ethercat may use CANopen device profiles, so it may be possible to generate some sort of ESI file from existing data.

I don't have access to Ethercat specifications, but someone with access could:

• verify if current information from CANopenEditor are enough for ESI file, see for example recent protobuffer definition.
• Get xml schema for ESI file (seems, it is available). From xml schema cs file can be automatically generated, similar as https://github.com/CANopenNode/CANopenEditor/blob/main/libEDSsharp/CanOpenXSD_1_1.cs
• Create importer and exporter, similar as (not the newest version) https://github.com/CANopenNode/CANopenEditor/blob/1d123ecf13ff69d4aae3e5ee22be745bcbad3599/libEDSsharp/CanOpenXDD_1_1.cs