FreecomAPI

With the Freelance API an export file from the ABB Freelance control system can be evaluated.

Freelance Reader

The FreelanceReader is a context manager. Depending on the file extension it returns the correct object :warning: Only certain file endings are evaluated

• PLC
• PLE
• CSV

FreelanceReader

from freelanceapi import FreelanceReader

with FreelanceReader("/User/test.csv") as file:
    print(file)

output >> freelanceapi.FreelanceExportData.FreelanceCsvData object at 0x10e13eac0

Freelance Exports

The Freelance Export class supports the functions.

complete_file

The data of the complete file is returned as a tuple.

from freelanceapi import FreelanceReader

with FreelanceReader("/User/test.csv") as file:
    print(file.complete_file())

output >> (([Program-Generated File -- DO NOT MODIFY],),([DUMP_VERSION],2061,),([DUMP_FILETYPE],101,)......)

extract_sections

The desired range must be specified as a string. Then the selected range is output as a tuple. If a section occurs more than once in the file, it is expanded in the tuple.

from freelanceapi import FreelanceReader

with FreelanceReader("/User/test.csv") as file:
    print(file.extract_sections("Project Comment"))
    
output >> (('[BEGIN_PROJECTCOMMENT];0;',),)

The following areas are available for selection:

• Project Comment
• Node
• HW2
• Area
• Header
• Resorce Association
• Hardware Manager
• Hardware
• OPC Connection
• Connections
• HD Text
• HD
• MSR
• OPC Adressing
• EAM Initialisation
• EAM
• Project Tree

Freelance Export UML

classDiagram
    class FreelanceExportData  {
        <<abstract>>
        +file_data: tuple[str]
        +complete_file()
        +extract_sections(section)
    }
    
    class FreelanceReader  {
        <<context manager>>
    }
    FreelanceReader o-- FreelanceExportData : creates
    FreelanceExportData <|-- FreelancePlcData
    FreelanceExportData <|-- FreelancePleData
    FreelanceExportData <|-- FreelanceCsvData

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In this example, the complete range of field IO is output.

The following sections can be read out:

• ProjectComment:
• AreaDefinition:
• ProjectHeader:
• ResourceAssociation:
• HardWareManager:
• HW2:
• OPCConn:
• Conn:
• HDTextList:
• HD:
• MSR:
• OPCAdress:
• EAMInit:
• EAM:
• Node:
• Pbaum:

row_identifier

It provides:

Meanings of the Dict Keys:

• ID: Identification
• RID: Row Identification
• LEN: Length of Dataset
• NA: Next element available
• MP: Measuring point
• MT: Module Type
• ST: Short Text
• LT: Long Text
• AD: Area Definition
• SB: Status Bit
• VN: Variable Name
• DT: Data Typ
• VT: Variable Text
• PI: Process image
• EX: Exported Variable
• VC: Variable(0) or Const (1)
• FB: FBS Name
• LB: Libary
• DTMN: DTM Number
• DTMC: DTM Config
• QC: Quantity counter
• FN: Function Name
• CN: Channel Name
• IO: Input or Output
• UB: Used Byte
• B: Bit
• BL: Byte Length
• C: Commend
• AC: Area Char
• LA: Length of Area Text
• AN: Area Name
• PO: Processing order
• VAR: Variable

⚠️ Developer Info

All keys that contain a NI (NoIdear) cannot be assigned to a function.