Network Force/Torque Sensor System

Net F/T Installation and Operation Manual
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9. System Settings XML Pages
The Net F/T’s current settings can be retrieved in XML format using standard Ethernet HTTP requests. This
enables programs to read system settings such as the Counts per Force value. The Net F/T’s Java demo
application uses data provided in these XML pages to correctly scale displayed data.
In the following tables, the data types of XML elements are as follows:
Table 9.1—Types Used by XML Elements
Data Type
DINT
Signed double integer (32 bit)
Description
ENABL Boolean using Enabled to represent 1 and Disabled to represent 0
HEXn Hexadecimal number of n bits, prefixed with 0x.
INT
REAL
SINT
STRINGn
UDINT
UINT
USINT
Signed integer (16 bit)
Floating-point number (32 bit)
Signed short integer (8 bit)
String of n characters
Unsigned double integer (32 bit)
Unsigned integer (16 bit)
Unsigned short integer (8 bit)
The values of all data types are presented as an ASCII strings.
Arrays are represented if the suffix [i] is attached to the data type, where i indicates the number of values in
the array. Array values in an XML element may be separated by a semicolon, comma, or space.
9.1 System and Configuration Information (netftapi2.xml)
The XML page netftapi2.xml retrieves the system setup and active configuration. To retrieve information
about other configurations, those configurations must be made active prior to the request.
A configuration index can be specified when requesting this configuration information. This is done by
appending ?index=n to the request, where n is the index of the desired configuration. If a configuration
index is not specified the active configuration will be assumed.
For example, to retrieve configuration information for the second configuration the requested page would
be netftapi2.xml?index=1.
The reference column in Table 9.2— XML Elements in netftapi2.xml indicates which .htm page and .cgi
function access this element. Refer to the corresponding entry in Section 4—Web Pages or Section 8–
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) for related information.
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