Application

Configuration

The configuration of the smartCORE application consists of the following parts

• the (static) system configuration file smartcore.json
• the (dynamic) measurement configuration file smartcore_dynamic.json

The JSON format is used in both cases.

System configuration file

The system configuration file smartcore.json contains the smartCORE application-related parameters as well as the configurations of all system modules (see section Configuration of the modules).

Application parameters

The following table lists all application parameters

section	parameter	required	data type	meaningful value range	default	description
log	loggingtype	No	STRING	"Both", "Console", "File"	"File"	Type of recording of error messages and warnings
log	filepath	No	STRING	valid, writable directory path	"/sdi/log/"	directory for storing log files
log	maxFileCount	No	INT	1 -	10	max. number of existing log files
log	maxFileSize	No	INT	1 -	1024000 (1000 kB)	max. size of a log file
scpi	port	No	INT	1 -	5024	TCP/IP port for built-in SCPI server
- (top level)	namespaceSeparator	No	STRING	"."	Separator for representing channel hierarchies
- (top level)	timeout	No	INT	1 -	10000 (10 s)	Timeout for loading the system modules

Typical system configuration

In general, the system configuration contains the configautoload module, which loads the measurement configuration and the SCPI module, which realizes the provision of an SCPI interface.

{
  "log":{
    "loggingtype": "Both",
    "filepath":"/sdi/log/"
    "maxFileCount":10,
    "maxFileSize":1024000
  },
  "scpi":{
    "port":5024
  },
  "namespaceSeparator":".",
  "timeout":10000,

  "plugins":[
    "configautoload",
    "scpi"
  ],
  "modules":[
    {
      "module": "configautoload",
      "factory": "configautoload",
      "config":{
        "once":true,
        "configfilename": "smartcore_dynamic.json"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Measurement configuration file

The measurement configuration file smartcore_dynamic.json, or can be specified within the configautoload module under configfilename - see above, In addition to the timeout parameter known from the system configuration, it only contains the configuration of the measurement modules (see Configuration of the modules).

The measurement configuration file can therefore be seen as a kind of supplement to the system configuration file. However, it should be noted that first all modules of the system configuration are instantiated and only then those from the measurement configuration. In addition, the sequence of module instantiations within both configurations is not fixed.

Configuration of the modules

The modules are configured in two parameters for both system modules and measurement modules

• Listing of the moduleclasses (-factories), in the form of the JSON array plugins
• Listing of the moduleinstances, in the form of the JSON array modules

While the array of module classes only contains the names of all factories used in the form of strings, the entries in the array of module instances are JSON objects of the form

{
  "module": "ModuleInstance",
  "factory": "modulefactory",
  "config":{

    < Module Configuration Parameters >

  }
}