tik serviceNatural Access parameters are a mechanism to allow the operating characteristics of a service to be dynamically modified. If the service being developed needs this type of extensibility, then define a set of one or more parameters. Parameters are named entities with the following syntax:
xxx.category.fieldname
A parameter category is like a directory in a modern file system. It allows multiple logically-related fieldnames to be nested. For example, the ADI service contains multiple categories, each of which contain multiple fieldnames:
ADI.CALLPROG.busycount
ADI.CALLPROG.leakagetime
ADI.CALLPROG.maxbusy
ADI.COLLECT.firsttimeout
ADI.COLLECT.intertimeout
A data type and a default value are associated with each parameter. Supported data types are:
|
Data type |
Description |
|---|---|
|
WORD |
16 bit unsigned integer |
|
DWORD |
32 bit unsigned integer |
|
INT16 |
16 bit signed integer |
|
INT32 |
32 bit signed integer |
|
STRING |
Arbitrary length string which may contain spaces |
|
BYTE_ARRAY |
Array of bytes |
tik service
For the tik service, there is one category comprised of two field names:
Number of tick strings to be received = tik.start.NumTicks
data type = DWORD, default = 2
Frequency of tick strings to be received = tik.start.Frequency
data type = DWORD, default = 2