//******************************************************************************************************//  IChannelDefinition.cs - Gbtc////  Copyright © 2012, Grid Protection Alliance.  All Rights Reserved.////  Licensed to the Grid Protection Alliance (GPA) under one or more contributor license agreements. See//  the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.//  The GPA licenses this file to you under the MIT License (MIT), the "License"; you may//  not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:////      http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT////  Unless agreed to in writing, the subject software distributed under the License is distributed on an//  "AS-IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. Refer to the//  License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations.////  Code Modification History://  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------//  02/18/2005 - J. Ritchie Carroll//       Generated original version of source code.//  09/15/2009 - Stephen C. Wills//       Added new header and license agreement.//  10/5/2012 - Gavin E. Holden//       Added new header and license agreement.//  12/17/2012 - Starlynn Danyelle Gilliam//       Modified Header.////****************************************************************************************************** using System;using System.Runtime.Serialization; namespace GSF.PhasorProtocols{    #region [ Enumerations ]     /// <summary>    /// Data transmission formats enumeration.    /// </summary>    [Serializable]    public enum DataFormat : byte    {        /// <summary>        /// Fixed integer data transmission format.        /// </summary>        FixedInteger,        /// <summary>        /// Floating point data transmission format.        /// </summary>        FloatingPoint    }     #endregion     /// <summary>    /// Represents a protocol independent interface representation of a definition of any kind of <see cref="IChannel"/> data.    /// </summary>    /// <remarks>    /// Each instance of <see cref="IChannelDefinition"/> will have a more specific derived implementation    /// (e.g., <see cref="IAnalogDefinition"/> and <see cref="IFrequencyDefinition"/>), these specific implementations of    /// <see cref="IChannelDefinition"/> will be referenced children of a <see cref="IConfigurationCell"/>.<br/>    /// The <see cref="IChannelDefinition"/> defines the properties of an associated <see cref="IChannelValue{T}"/>.    /// </remarks>    public interface IChannelDefinition : IChannel, ISerializable, IEquatable<IChannelDefinition>, IComparable<IChannelDefinition>, IComparable    {        /// <summary>        /// Gets the <see cref="IConfigurationCell"/> parent of this <see cref="IChannelDefinition"/>.        /// </summary>        IConfigurationCell Parent { get; set; }         /// <summary>        /// Gets the <see cref="PhasorProtocols.DataFormat"/> of this <see cref="IChannelDefinition"/>.        /// </summary>        DataFormat DataFormat { get; }         /// <summary>        /// Gets or sets the index of this <see cref="IChannelDefinition"/>.        /// </summary>        int Index { get; set; }         /// <summary>        /// Gets or sets the offset of this <see cref="IChannelDefinition"/>.        /// </summary>        double Offset { get; set; }         /// <summary>        /// Gets or sets the integer scaling value of this <see cref="IChannelDefinition"/>.        /// </summary>        uint ScalingValue { get; set; }         /// <summary>        /// Gets the maximum value for the <see cref="ScalingValue"/> of this <see cref="IChannelDefinition"/>.        /// </summary>        uint MaximumScalingValue { get; }         /// <summary>        /// Gets or sets the conversion factor of this <see cref="IChannelDefinition"/>.        /// </summary>        double ConversionFactor { get; set; }         /// <summary>        /// Gets the scale/bit value of this <see cref="IChannelDefinition"/>.        /// </summary>        double ScalePerBit { get; }         /// <summary>        /// Gets or sets the label of this <see cref="IChannelDefinition"/>.        /// </summary>        string Label { get; set; }         /// <summary>        /// Gets the binary image of the <see cref="Label"/> of this <see cref="IChannelDefinition"/>.        /// </summary>        byte[] LabelImage { get; }         /// <summary>        /// Gets the maximum length of the <see cref="Label"/> of this <see cref="IChannelDefinition"/>.        /// </summary>        int MaximumLabelLength { get; }    }}