TheBaseEngine Methods

Adds a capability to the Engine V4: You can send Discovery Messages across a mesh to find nodes with certain Plugins and capabilities

Adds a list of all required DLLs and other files that need to be present for the plugin to work The Plugin-Store will combine all the files when it creates the installer package

Adds a list of supported platforms

RETIRED IN V4: No more channels

Clonse an incoming object into this object

Clones the metadata of the current class to a new class provided to the method

Fires an event with the given name

Fire an Event on a property

Returns this BaseEngine

Returns MyBaseThing of TheBaseEngine

Gets the minimal required Version of the C-DEngine

Returns the cost of the Engine Communication in C-Credits

Gets the main Dashboard of TheBaseEngine

Gest the Guid of the Dashboard of TheBaseEngine

Returns a list of TheDeviceTypeInfos of this plugin

Returns the Plugin GUID of TheBaseEngine

Gets the Name of TheBaseEngine - used for the ENG parameter TSM and corresponding subscriptions

Returns the current Engine State

Returns the Service Node ID if set. This only applies to Non-Service Plugins (i.e. StorageService Client)

Gets the Friendly Name of TheBaseEngine

Returns the ISOlater (Isolation Manager)

Returns ThePluginInfo of TheBaseEngine

Loads a Resource from the Relay. Load Order: This method is adding a /L{LCID} to the resource if the requesting User has set a different LCID then zero (Browser Default) 1 - ClientBin Folder under Executable Folder 2 - Embedded Resources of Plug-in/Engine 3 - ClientBin Folder with no /L{LCID} 4 - Embedded Resources of Plug-in/Engine without L{LCID} The method also adds sets the ResponseMimeType on TheRequestData for js, css, html and pngs If the requested resource is an HTML File and it cannot be located, the method returns a "Resource not found" error in the ResponseBuffer AllowStatePush will be set to true and StatusCode will be set to 200.

Retrieves an embedded Resource from the plugin by name.

Return the ICDEThing interface of TheBaseThing

Returns the Version of TheBaseEngine

TheBaseEngine can be asked if a certain Capability is supported by the it

RETIRED IN V4: returns always FALSE

Sends CDE_INITIALIZE to the Service Node. Only for "Client" Engines

Returns true if the requested eThingEvents has registered callbacks

Fires the eventMessageProcess to all listeners

If called from a derived class and the class was stored in a StorageMirror, this method will call the "NotifyOfUpdate" method in the StorageMirror to inform all Notification Clients that this record has changed. This is VERY Expensive! Do not call too often! This does not work with StorageMirrors that require a PostSalt (unique table name)

A service/engine has to call this method when Init() is done and the service/engine is ready to get to work.

Incoming Publish Notification from Service Handled on the Client

Incoming Publish Notification from Service Handled on the Client

Incoming Publish Notification from Service Handled on the Client

Publishes a TSM to the Active Channel

Registers a CSS File with the Engine

Register a callback with an event of TheBaseEngine

Register a callback that will be fired on a Property Event

Register a callback that will be fired on a Property Event

Registers a JavaScript Engine with the HttpService. The JavaScript File must have the same name as returned by "GetEngineName()"

If a service/engine gets a call to Initialize, it can reply to the sender that is has been initialized.

RETIRED IN V4: No more channels

RETIRED IN V4: No more channels

Sets the minimal required version of the C-DEngine for TheBaseEngine

Sets the main Dashboard of TheBaseEngine

Declares a list of DeviceTypes for this plugins

Sets the EngineID Of TheBaseEngine - this is required by the system. By default, the Engine will also use this Guid for its main Dashboard ID

Sets the Engine and ClassName of TheBaseEngine.. Recommended is to use "GetType().FullName" Subscriptions for TheBaseEngine will use this name

Call this method to set the station readiness. It will be called by the system automatically once a channel is up and running

Sets TheBaseEngine as a Service (will be Added to the StationRoles)

Sets the .NET Type of TheBase Engine. Use "GetType()"

Sets the Friendly Name of TheBaseEngine

Call this Method to tell the C-DEngine and "EngineInitialized" registrars that the service has been successfully initialized The Event is fired synchronous and fires BEFORE the EngineState.IsInitialized is set to true. This allows event recceivers to check if the Engine has been initialized before

Is set when TheBaseEngine is initializing

Plug-in call this from their InitEngineAssets() method to indicate that they require an activated license

Defines TheBaseEngine as a Mini Relay (Pub/Sub Relaying Only - no Application Code)

Sets the Isolation flags

RETIRED IN V4: All Engines now NOT MultiChannel

If a new Version was found it can be set here

Sets the Information of the Plugin

Sets the Statuslevel of TheBaseEngine to a new level If you use -1, the StatusLevel is calculated from all the Things TheBaseEngine is managing

Sets the Version of TheBaseEngine

This is the main start routine for the engine. Depending on pURLS and the way the Engine is configured a channel is opened to the first URL in the pURLs

Stops all channels and than the engine Removes all channels from the list - should not be used to stop a particular channel

Sends a CDE-SUBSCRIBE telegram to the Active Channel of this engine

Returns a friendly view of the current Engine State

Unregisters the call back with an event. If the callback is null, all callbacks of the event will be removed

Unregister a previously registered callback

Unregister a previously registered callback

Unregister the StorageReadiness callbacks

Fires the "CostingWasUpdated" event to add new credits to a TSM

RETIRED IN V4: QSender can have different scopes

Updates all list-properties of Service State with the current values

Fires when all Engines are Started

Async Version of WaitForEnginesStarted

Fires the call back when TheStorageService is ready for business

Async version of WaitForStorageReadiness