Measurement Plug-In SDK for Python v2.1.0

Compatibility Notes

• The version for a measurement plug-in is now specified in the .serviceconfig file. If your plug-in specifies version using the constructor of the MeasurementService 'version' parameter and not with a 'version' element in the .serviceconfig file, the version will be ignored and your service will be registered as version 0.1.0.
• Configuration parameters with array types should be treated as Sequence[T] or Iterable[T] rather than List[T]. You can still index, iterate, slice, etc. but some operations such as concatenating with another list or tuple are not supported. If you need the parameter to be converted to a list or a tuple, you should do that in your measure() function. See this example.

New Measurement Plug-In Client Generator

• Added the client generator, allowing users to call into a measurement service from Python (#841, #854, #856, #870, #871, #872, #874, #880, #882, #883, #889, #891, #892, #900, #901, #902, #920, #921, #934, #938, #947, #951, #952)

Bug Fixes and Minor Changes

• Replaced internal encoders with message encoder calling public API (#767)
• Create a top-level ni-measurement-plugin-sdk meta package (#781)
• Change the generator tool name to ni-measurement-plugin-generator (#798)
• Added check for metadata validation (#807)
• Fix invalid test default values and allow double/float parameters take integers (#832)
• Add enumerate services API (#826)
• Update measurement service to get version from .serviceconfig (#827)
• Update default channel pool options when creating grpc channels (#887)
• Update Plug-in to Plug-In (#898)
• Do not specify version in the MeasurementService constructor (#907)
• Update version checking to warn that version is deprecated and error if there is no .serviceconfig version (#935)
• Add resolve service with information API in the discovery client (#950)

Examples

• Rename TestStand sequences to append _example (#776)
• Add .serviceignore files to the examples (#784)
• Add Plug-in Library installs scripts to the examples (#789)
• Use the tuple with the updated "in_compliance" value (#842)
• Replace strings with the constant variable in NI VISA DMM and Output Voltage (#812)
• Update service class of Game of Life example (#877 #933)
• Don't assume array parameters are implemented as lists (#936)

New Contributors

• @nick-beer made their first contribution in #784
• @jasonmreding made their first contribution in #887
• @rajatkumar87 made their first contribution in #968

Full Changelog: 2.0.0...2.1.0