The official 1.7 release of the MTConnect Agent

Added the following features for the 1.7 release:

• Composition now has Configuration
• Added keyType to EntryDefinition and CellDefinition
• Added support for parsing and generating Motion blocks for Configuration.
• Add support for parsing and generating SolidModel blocks for Configuration.
• Added the new Agent Device when the version is set to 1.7
• Refactoring of the HTTP Server to a separate module in prep for MQTT and Boost
• Refactoring of the parsing and generation of Assets using an abstract entity
• Better error handling and content validation in assets
• HTTP put now returns asset errors as an error list when the asset is not parsed
• Type checking for Asset properties
• JSON Parsing of assets – not wired into put yet
• Better ReST query parameter handling
• Added 'to' parameter to ReST protocol
• Added support for adapter message rates
• Completed Version 1.7 support with new SHDR commands for mtconnectVersion and adapterVersion to support the new agent device.
• ShdrVersion configuration variable and adapter protocol command. Changes tokenizer behavior to allow single-line observations beyond key/value pair.
• Fixed some entity issues.
• Added optional Namespace support. If the namespace is not given in the configuration, the XML will exclude the namespace. Added qualified name abstractions for entities.
• Some performance enhancements
• Added optional header fields to solve CORS issues.
• Added SuppessIPAddress option to prevent the IP Address of Adapters from the Agent Device.
• Refactored many other aspects of the agent