A serie of improvements of the transport subsystem in the output connections
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Transports
The improvements mostly targeted for the connections customization with the related protocols and increasing the reliability and productivity.
Total complexity: 0.5 HD
Sponsored by, on 0.3 HD: Vinnica Poultry Farm
Sponsored by, on 0.1 HD: SVItoVYR Ltd
Sponsored by, on 0.1 HD: Elyor Turaboev, BLUE STAR GROUP Ltd
The subsystem "Transports" includes support for input and output transports. Input transports are designed to serve external requests and send replies. Output transports, by contrast, are designed to send messages and wait for a responses. Therefore, input transports contain configuration of local station, as a listening server, and output transports contain configuration of a remote server to connect. That sort of specialization is typical for the "request-response" mechanism, however, currently input and output transports support the independent transmission and reception of data. Modules of the subsystem "Transports" implement support for both input and output transports.
The output transport improvements include primarily the reliability increasing, after observing the responses receiving at previous requests and their wrong processing, for the network transports (Sockets and SSL):
- setting the tries default number to 1 from 2;
- disconnection at the timeout error in any try, besides the initiative external connections;
- increasing the default timeouts up to "30:2" for providing the OpenSCADA control interface in maximum delay of long requests processing in 30 seconds;
- expanding the protocols ModBus and Self OpenSCADA protocol for some checking the response accordance to the request.
The next improvement was the default timeouts customization and specifying the network transports, since the common timeouts "30:2" is very big for protocols whate exclude the long time processing, like to ModBus/TCP, and especially ModBus/RTU through the TCP or UDP sockets. So, the default timeouts of the output transports set for generic in "10:1", SelfSystem in "20:2" and ModBus/RTU through network in "5:0.1". And the network is identified by the method "isNetwork()".
And at the last there was:
- appended a task of checking the output transports for disconnect the inactive ones in long time, what is usable for the external initiative connections and data sources with the limited connection number;
- removed the option "To Start" to prevent of performing wrong connection tries at the start, slowing the common starting;
- prevented from the new connections establishing at the program stop, slowing the common stopping on big number of the data sources working through one common transport;
- improved the external initiative connections processing in only creation new output transports for new connections, but not reusing, what may be wrong in some cases;
- renamed the transport messages "start/stop" to "connect/disconnect".
