@johntalton/i2c-port
v4.0.0
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Provides tooling that allows for `I2CBus` to be hosted natively, over `MessagePort`, within `Worker` and over `WebSockets`.
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I²C MessagePort based Bus
Provides tooling that allows for I2CBus
to be hosted natively, over MessagePort
, within Worker
and over WebSockets
.
This allows the I2CBus
api to be used in a wide range of deployment cases.
It can also be using with bus Multiplexing such as @johntalton/i2c-bus-tca9548a that adheres to the I2CBus
interface. As well as using i2c-bus as the default concrete/base implementation.
Provided Abstraction
Key is providing multiple abstraction layers.
- A
Message
type definition (includingRead
,ReadResult
,Error
, etc) - An
I2CPort
function that mapsMessage
intoI2CBus
commands on providedbus
- And
I2CPortBus
which implementsI2CBus
over aMessagePort
interface
The corresponding WebSocket
to MessagePort
example can be run to provide this service.
Message
The Message definition layer provides a naming convention and contract without implementation details. It is ideal for abstracting the service at each layer.
I2CPort
The port utility provides a handleMessage
function.
By which, given a provided I2CBus
and Message
, will execute that bus command.
const busX = ... // a I2CBus impl from somewhere
const result = await I2CPort.handleMessage(busX, {
namespace: 'NS',
type: 'readI2cBlock',
address: 0x00,
cmd: 0x00,
length: 3
})
console.log(result)
/*
{
namespace: 'NS',
address: 0,
type: 'readResult',
bytesRead: 3,
buffer: Uint8Array(3) [ 1, 3, 4 ]
...
}
*/
This message to bus method and back is particularly useful when abstracting the I2CBus
class methods accros a MessagePort
implementation such as I2CPortBbus
.
I2CPortBus
The implementation of I2CBus
allows for creating a instance classes which use the generic I2CBus
interface and alow them to run atop of a MessagePort
.
Useful application (as seen in the examples) of this are:
- Workers: allow for running I2CBus
implementation and Sensor across worker (shared i2c service for multiple workers)
- WebSockets: allow for transmission of Message
across a WebSocket to allow for remote i2c Sensor implementations.
ArrayBuffer and friends
The current implementation attempts to preserve a common ArrayBuffer
interface across the implementation in order to provide flexibility