AVEVA™ Communication Drivers Pack – Standards - WEBSVC Driver Readme

Last revision: 11/20/2020

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About This Release

System Requirements

Resolved Issues

Known Issues

WEBSVC Communication Driver Documentation

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About This Release

This document contains important information such as the system requirement, installation, resolved issues, and known issues for this release of the WEBSVC Communication Driver.

New Features and Enhancements

Installation

The WEBSVC Communication Driver Communication Driver is installed along with the Communication Drivers Drivers Pack. It is a selectable option during the Communication Drivers Pack installation.

Connection Timeout Support for REST

You can now configure the Connection Timeout for REST connections. For more information, refer to the Configuring a REST Connection section of the AVEVA Communication Drivers Pack – Standards - WEBSVC Driver Help.

System Requirements

Platform Compatibility

The WEBSVC Communication Driver will always be compatible with the latest release of System Platform. For a detailed information on product and platform compatibility, refer to the Technology Matrix section of the Global Customer Support (GCS) Site.

Operating Systems

For a list of supported operating systems for Communication Drivers, refer to the Compatibility Matrix, available at the Global Customer Support website:

https://gcsresource.invensys.com/ProductCompatibility/HTMLClient

Enter the product name in the search box, select the product from the results, and then select the View Product icon to see product details.

Hardware Requirements

To run a Communication Driver, the following hardware configurations are the minimum recommended:

Resolved Issues

The following issues are resolved in this release.

Defect ID

SR/Case Number

Description

CR-L00156883

CR-L00156450

SR-37613349

 

Communication to an API was failing

CR-L00148204

CR-L00147343

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WEBSVC - Structure Array - we not get access to some tags

CR-L00148969

SR-103150937

Configuration pane was partially hidden

CR-L00148160

SR-103149306

Integration to Huawei Web Service timed out after 1 hour. Current Web service interface does not appear to support the authentication mechanism needed.

CR-L00150100

SR-103151830

Incorrect Post/Put in text/XML format

CR-L00150957

SR-103153071

Temperature degree C in JSON was showing incorrectly - no mapping for the Unicode character exist, OI server failed with this link due to invalid Unicode.

CR-L00154412

SR-51315667

OI WEBSVC Got 0 (zero) in result value for very low result (example for value lower that 1 e-7).

CR-L00154489

CR-L00156045

SR-103162123

SR-37115639

Reading an item using the &T& VTQ timestamp syntax would randomly result in bad quality for that item.

 

CR-L00156302

SR-223110944

Configured Header Key and Value being ignored when poking a 1 to "$op$ww.get.run". Keys other than Content-Type worked fine when using the Test button in the REST object configuration.

CR-L00156405

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It was hard to see the response of the API calls without using 3rd party tools. Required a way to see the raw response of an API when a call is made by the OI server.

Known Issues

There are no known issues in this release.

WEBSVC Communication Driver Documentation

The WEBSVC Communication Driver documentation set includes the following guides:

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