Is it possible to discern the Gateway Name for a Remote Tag Provider given a TagProvider Java object?
I need to know this so that I can properly differentiate entries in the sqlth_drv table of a shared historian DB.
pturmel
October 18, 2024, 11:00am
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I'm working on a couple tasks related to historians and history queries, and have encountered some behaviors of remote tag providers (RTPs) that have me stymied:
There's no public way to retrieve the gateway name that a RTP is pointing at, nor any public way to retrieve the far end's real tag provider name.
(Reflection has exposed com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.tags.distributed.client.RemoteTagProvider and com.inductiveautomation.metro.api.ServerId to me, and a number of private fie…
Note that the Exchange project linked at the bottom has sample code.
Thank you. The TL;DR for those following along is that I'm following @pturmel 's lead and using reflection to retrieve gateway.remoteServerId.address from the RemoteTagProvider object. (For now, at least.)