Parsing to a DataType

[jojoguy10]

Related to my other feat7ure request, is there a function available to parse a string of a DataType to a DataType instance?

Something like this, but then output to the actual DataType ( or rather, LogixType) to use in making Tags?

private object GetMemberDataType(Parameter parameter)
{
    object output;
    switch(parameter.DataType)
    {
        case "BOOL":
            output = new BOOL();
            break;
        case "DINT":
            output = new DINT();
            break;
        case "INT":
            output = new INT();
            break;
        case "LINT":
            output = new LINT();
            break;
        case "LREAL":
            output = new LREAL();
            break;
        case "REAL":
            output = new REAL();
            break;
        case "SINT":
            output = new SINT();
            break;
        case "UDINT":
            output = new UDINT();
            break;
        case "UINT":
            output = new UINT();
            break;
        case "ULINT":
            output = new ULINT();
            break;
        case "USINT":
            output = new USINT();
            break;
        case "MESSAGE":
            output = new MESSAGE();
            break;
        case "STRING":
            output = new STRING();
            break;
        case "TIMER":
            output = new TIMER();
            break;
        default:
            output = new BOOL();
            break;
    }

    return output;
}

[jojoguy10]

Or maybe, and this could also be related to #24, can I instantiate a new Member with a string as the LogixData type? Granted, that would be require the program to make sure the other properties are configured properly, possibly (unless Logix will find defaults for them when uploaded).

public Member(string name, string dataType)
    : base(CreateMember(name, data))
{ }

Seems like that kind of breaks a few things with how you're making the XElement :/ .

[tnunnink]

I agree and I had been thinking about how to do this. I have added a new method in version 2.3.0 to create LogixData instance by just providing a name.

//Creates a concrete DINT instance.
var atomic = LogixData.Create("DINT");

//Creates a concrete TIMER instance.
var predefined = LogixData.Create("TIMER");

//Created a ComplexData instance with name "MyType"
var data = LogixData.Create("MyType");

If the data type name is not known then it resorts to the normal ComplexData instance.

I was going to add a new constructor to Member but it caused too many test errors, since StringData is implicitly convertible to a string type in .NET. But you can just call this method like so.

var member = new Member("MemberName", LogixData.Create("TIMER"));

This let me add new constructors in a few other places, like ArrrayData and Tag.

//Creates 100 DINT objects from the provided name.
var array = new ArrayData<LogixData>("DINT", new Dimensions(100));

//Creates the TIMER instance from the name.
var tag = new Tag("MyTag", "TIMER");