Add a new protocol

[gabiSRC]

Hello there!

I am currently creating a new protocol and I have an issue.

I added the protocol to the docker-compose file and it's building and being run correctly.

The issue I have is that the protocol is not displayed along the Dummy and BLE protocol in the device manager's settings.
Another weird thing is that I removed the BLE protocol from my docker-compose file but it is still displayed.

In the devices page, I got the device found by the protocol but I cannot register it to anything thing while I can register the dummy device to the Dummy type.

How the protocols are generated and how can I register my device from my protocol to a device type?

I based my protocol on the dummy protocol: I use the following constants:
AGILE_<my-protocol-name>PROTOCOL_BUS_NAME = "org.eclipse.agail.protocol.<MY-PROTOCOL-NAME>";
AGILE<my-protocol-name>_PROTOCOL_BUS_PATH = "/org/eclipse/agail/protocol/<MY-PROTOCOL-NAME>";
AGILE_NEW_DEVICE_SIGNAL_PATH = "/org/eclipse/agail/NewDevice";
AGILE_NEW_RECORD_SIGNAL_PATH = "/org/eclipse/agail/NewRecord";

Thank you.

[dpap]

There are two issues:
The first issue concerns deleting protocols in agile-core
eclipse-agail/agile-core#75
There is an issue in protocol manager and I have a workaround which I am currently testing

The second issue is that when protocols are added/removed they disappear from device manager
Agile-IoT/agile-ui#73

Is this similar to what you are seeing?

[gabiSRC]

@dpap It is not really similar to what I am seeing.

I added a new protocol and I removed the BLE protocol. I was expecting my protocol to appear and the BLE to disappear in the device settings page (the one you showed in Agile-IoT/agile-ui#73) but nothing changed.

And I was expecting, in the devices discovered by my protocol, the possibility to select the device type in order to get the data. By the way, I am also wondering how the device type list is done, in fact, I would like to be able to say that the device is of one type or another type in the protocol but I am not sure it is possible.

Maybe the agile-dummy and agile-BLE are registered somewhere but I thought it was done automatically when adding it in the docker-compose. If the protocol are to be registered somewhere else, I could not find where.

Edit: I looked into the protocolmanager (https://github.com/Agile-IoT/agile-core/blob/master/org.eclipse.agail.ProtocolManager/src/main/java/org/eclipse/agail/protocolmanager/ProtocolManagerImp.java) and it happens that the protocol supported are hard-coded in it so I do not thing that the adding of a new protocol is dynamic

[Dogmans]

This is what I do for my protocol:

https://github.com/Agile-IoT/agile-rfm69/blob/master/run_server.py

If you use protocol manager to add it then it should appear; the calls I use are over DBus but you can use other APIs as well I think.

Protocols can implement discovery itself to return devices to the rest of the services, although mine does not do this.