Support for UWP

[alexiordan]

It seems that UWP cannot benefit from json based configuration file.
In the provided sample the initialization seems be to handled this way:

properties = new Dictionary<string, string>();
properties.Add("ConfigProperty", "ConfigValue");
gateway = new Microsoft.Azure.IoT.Gateway.Gateway(modules, properties);

What is the correspondence between the content of a json configuration file and these properties?
Is there an example available?

Or to put it this way: how are links passed to the gateway?

[alexiordan]

OK, so just by trial and error... and keep in mind that I did not configure anything related to links
All modules receive the published information, except the one that actually publishes it.

If the conclusion is wrong, please correct me.
Of course if someone can point how the links can be set for the Universal Windows version his effort will be highly appreciated.

[aribeironovaes]

Hi @alexiordan ,

So, the UWP binding/Gateway that we had on previous version didn't implement/support Json configuration. The way they did was by creating an instance of a UWP Gateway (the one you mentioned on your first gateway). I would have to double check if today the Gateway configuration is used.

You can take a look into existing samples and check how configuration are passed to them.

Regarding your second question, UWP binding had a broadcast broker, so links to module was not implemented for UWP.

Future binding would have support for that.

[alexiordan]

@aribeironovaes , thank you for the insight.
The fact that the next version will support links is a great thing.

When do you expect the new release with UWP support? I closed the other issues since your replies answered my questions. However if you need those as reference for the backlog, you can reopen them.

Regarding the parameters passing: From what I've seen, all the parameters are passed to each module. It's the module's responsability to use that information.

[aribeironovaes]

@alexiordan,

Thanks. We don't know exactly when it's going to come back, i just know that in our backlog and we will work on it as soon as we finish some higher priority backlog items that we are working.

Let's keep this item opened so you can track once we have that! As soon as we have I will let you know.

Thanks a lot for using our Sdk,

Angelo Ribeiro.

[parbergius]

What is the status for the UWP gateway? We developing an application that will run on Windows IoT Core so the gateway must runs as a UWP background application.

[ddobric]

Hi guys,

it looks as UWP request support has a dead loop between #212 and this #47.
Take a look here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Azure.Devices.Gateway.Module.NetStandard/

:)

[aribeironovaes]

Closing due to inactivity and according to @ddobric answer.