Package com.oracle.deviceaccess.generic

Interfaces and classes for controlling devices using generic I/O operations.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
GenericBufferIODevice	The GenericBufferIODevice interface defines generic methods for accessing and controlling peripheral devices using read and write operations.
GenericDevice	The GenericDevice interface defines methods for setting and getting peripheral device-specific configuration and access (I/O) controls as well as registering event listeners.
GenericEventListener	The GenericEventListener interface defines methods for getting notified of events fired by peripheral devices that implement the GenericDevice interface.

Class Summary

Class	Description
GenericDeviceConfig	The GenericDeviceConfig class encapsulates the hardware addressing information of generic device.
GenericDeviceControl<T>	The class GenericDeviceControl encapsulates a generic peripheral device's configuration and access (I/O) controls.
GenericEvent	The GenericEvent class encapsulates events fired by peripherals that implement the GenericDevice interface.
GenericPermission	The GenericPermission class defines permissions for g device access.

Package com.oracle.deviceaccess.generic Description

Interfaces and classes for controlling devices using generic I/O operations.

The generic device API allows for accessing peripheral devices when there are no more specific standard Java API such as I2CDevice, SPIDevice, GPIOPin or GPIOPort...

This API offers 2 main interfaces:

GenericDevice

Device control operations and event listener registration. A device may implements this sole interface if it does not support any read and write operations.

GenericBufferIODevice

Device control operations and event listener registration as inherited from GenericBufferIODevice and byte buffer read and write operations.

In order to access a device using its generic interface, an application should first open and obtain a GenericDevice instance for the device using its numerical ID, name, type (interface) and/or properties:

Using its ID

 GenericDevice device = (GenericDevice) PeripheralManager.open(17);
 

Using its name and interface

 GeneriBufferIODevice device = PeripheralManager.open("STORAGE", GeneriBufferIODevice.class, null);
 

Once the peripheral opened, the application can set and get controls, read and write data using methods of the GenericDevice or GenericBufferIODevice interfaces.

 device.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length);
 

When done, the application should call the GenericDevice.close() method to close the Generic device.

 device.close();
 

The following sample codes give examples of using the Generic API to communicate Real Time Clock device:

 public static final int EVT_ALARM = 0;
 public static final GenericDeviceControl<Byte> SECONDS = new GenericDeviceControl<>(0, Byte.class);
 public static final GenericDeviceControl<Byte> SEC_ALARM = new GenericDeviceControl<>(1, Byte.class);
 public static final GenericDeviceControl<Byte> MINUTES = new GenericDeviceControl<>(2, Byte.class);
 public static final GenericDeviceControl<Byte> MIN_ALARM = new GenericDeviceControl<>(3, Byte.class);
 public static final GenericDeviceControl<Byte> HR_ALARM = new GenericDeviceControl<>(4, Byte.class);
 public static final GenericDeviceControl<Byte> HOURS = new GenericDeviceControl<>(5, Byte.class);
 public static final GenericDeviceControl<Boolean> ALARM_ENABLED = new GenericDeviceControl<>(6, Boolean.class);
 
 // Sets the daily alarm for after some delay
 public void setAlarm(byte delaySeconds, byte delayMinutes, byte delayHours) throws IOException, PeripheralException {
     try (GenericDevice rtc = PeripheralManager.open("RTC", GenericDevice.class, (String) null)) {
         byte currentSeconds = rtc.getControl(SECONDS);
         byte currentMinutes = rtc.getControl(MINUTES);
         byte currentHours = rtc.getControl(HOURS);
         byte i = (byte) ((currentSeconds + delaySeconds) % 60);
         byte j = (byte) ((currentSeconds + delaySeconds) / 60);
         rtc.setControl(SEC_ALARM, i);
         i = (byte) ((currentMinutes + delayMinutes + j) % 60);
         j = (byte) ((currentMinutes + delayMinutes + j) / 60);
         rtc.setControl(MIN_ALARM, i);
         i = (byte) ((currentHours + delayHours + j) % 24);
         rtc.setControl(HR_ALARM, i);
 
         rtc.setEventListener(EVT_ALARM, new GenericEventListener() {
 
             public void eventDispatched(GenericEvent event) {
                 GenericDevice rtc = event.getPeripheral();
                 // Notify application of alarm
             }
         });
         // Enable alarm.
         rtc.setControl(ALARM_ENABLED, true);
     }
 }
 

Note that the preceding example is using a try-with-resources statement and that the GenericDevice.close() method is automatically invoked by the platform at the end of the statement.

 public static final int EVT_VOLUME_CHANGED = 0;
 public static final GenericDeviceControl<Float> MIC_VOLUME = new GenericDeviceControl<>(0, Float.class);
 public static final GenericDeviceControl<Float> MIC_SAMPLE_RATE = new GenericDeviceControl<>(1, Float.class);
 public static final GenericDeviceControl<Boolean> MIC_AUTOMATIC_GAIN = new GenericDeviceControl<>(2, Boolean.class);
 public static final GenericDeviceControl<Boolean> MIC_MUTE = new GenericDeviceControl<>(3, Boolean.class);
 
 public void audioCapture(ByteBuffer buffer, float sampleRate, boolean agc) throws IOException, PeripheralException {
     try (GenericBufferIODevice mic = PeripheralManager.open("MICROPHONE", GenericBufferIODevice.class, (String) null)) {
         mic.setControl(MIC_SAMPLE_RATE, sampleRate);
         mic.setControl(MIC_AUTOMATIC_GAIN, agc);
         mic.setControl(MIC_MUTE, false);
 
         mic.setEventListener(EVT_VOLUME_CHANGED, new GenericEventListener() {
 
             public void eventDispatched(GenericEvent event) {
                 GenericDevice mic = event.getPeripheral();
                 try {
                     float currentVolume = mic.getControl(MIC_VOLUME);
                     // ...
                 } catch (ClosedPeripheralException ex) {
                     ex.printStackTrace();
                 } catch (IOException ex) {
                     ex.printStackTrace();
                 }
             }
         });
         mic.read(buffer);
     }
 }
 

Unless otherwise noted, passing a null argument to a constructor or method in any class or interface in this package will cause a NullPointerException to be thrown.