NetBIX

A .NET oBIX Client, written in C# as a portable library.

NetBIX supports connecting to, reading and writing information from oBIX XML over HTTP servers (See https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/38212/oBIX-1-1-spec-wd06.pdf). NetBIX contains extension code for most oBIX-compatible .NET data types for easy conversion to and from oBIX types. NetBIX comes in a PCL for easy deployment to mobile devices.

NetBIX is heavily integrated into, and depends on, LINQ-to-XML (XElement) types.

Features

• .NET Portable class-library
• Async aware APIs
• oBIX:Read, oBIX:Write, and oBIX:Invoke support
• oBIX:Batch support

Namespaces

• NetBIX.oBIX.Client - Root Namespace, contains the classes required to open and manipulate an oBIX connection
  • NetBIX.oBIX.Client.Framework - Contains classses responsible for the running of the oBIX engine
  • NetBIX.oBIX.Client.Extensions - Contains the oBIX data-type conversion extensions

Getting started

All public oBIX APIs that rely on I/O to an oBIX server will return an ObixResult in Client.Framework namespace if the method has no return, or an ObixResult<TResult> with TResult being the type of the returned object accessible through the .Result property of the returned ObixResult<>.

Connecting to an oBIX Server

Before all operations on a new ObixClient, you must Connect() to the oBIX server. Doing this will enable NetBIX to discover all the services available on the oBIX server such as oBIX:Batch, oBIX:Watch, etc.

ObixResult connectResult;
XmlObixClient obixClient = new XmlObixClient(new Uri("http://obix.server/obix"));

connectResult = obixClient.Connect();
if (connectResult == ObixResult.kObixClientSuccess) {
  Console.WriteLine("Connection to the oBIX server succeeded!");
} else {
  Console.WriteLine("Connection to the oBIX server failed: {0}", ObixResult.Message(connectResult));
}

Reading an oBIX object

The below example code illustrates how to connect to an oBIX server and read the oBIX lobby into an XElement, and handle errors in a graceful manner.

ObixResult connectResult;
ObixResult<XElement> readResult;
XmlObixClient obixClient = new XmlObixClient(new Uri("http://obix.server/obix"));

connectResult = obixClient.Connect();
if (connectResult == ObixResult.kObixClientSuccess) {
  Console.WriteLine("Connection to the oBIX server succeeded!");
} else {
  Console.WriteLine("Connection to the oBIX server failed: {0}", ObixResult.Message(connectResult));
}

readResult = client.ReadUriXml(client.LobbyUri);
if (readResult.ResultSucceeded == true) {
  Console.WriteLine(readResult.Result.ToString());
} else if (readResult.Result.IsObixErrorContract() == true) {
  Console.WriteLine("The oBIX server returned an error contract: {0}", readResult.Result.ObixDisplay());
} else { 
  Console.WriteLine("Error reading from oBIX server: {0}", ObixResult.Message(readResult));
}

Limitations

At the time of writing, only oBIX:XML over HTTP is supported, although more bindings are possible.