SharpWrap2534 - The Ultimate J2534 Wrapper Suite

What is SharpWrap2534?

SharpWrap2534 is an approach at trying to build and deploy and easily consumable, user friendly, J2534 API wrapper in C# (along with some nifty extension packages that add support for more features). While there's a good number of these out there, SharpWrap stands out from the rest for a number of reasons. Some of the key features of SharpWrap are:

• Both Version 04.04 and Version 05.00 APIs are supported completely!
• All J2534 calls are setup in the background leaving the user with minimal configuration needed to consume this library
• Setting up a new instance of a J2534 device can be done in ONE LINE OF CODE.
  • All configuration of the J2534 Device and DLL objects are done when a new SharpSession is started.
  • When a SharpSession is built, a DLL is built based on the name provided and then the next possible device is automatically loaded up as well.
• Any exceptions thrown inside the J2534 instances are always returned out to the user for easy debugging.
• A total of (2) two device instances can be generated at one time. By forcing this design pattern, it's nearly impossible to try and build instances of devices which are impossible.
  • Like the device instances, only a set number of J2534 Channels can exist at a time to prevent losing track of them.
  • If Logical channels are needed, then they are built as well.
• Supports the hidden DrewTech API for device locating and initalization processes
  • These methods include the PTGetNextDevice() PTGetNextCarDAQ() PTScanForDevice() and more.
  • Each of these methods are mapped using their pointer delegates for unmanaged access and when called, are passed through an API Marshall to convert them into managed types.
• For more information on each of the different packages inside this repository, go into each directory according to the name of the package. There's a README for each of them inside there.

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Current Extensions

• As of now, there's a collection of 4/5 extensions ready for the SharpWrapper package.
• They're all located in the Extensions folder of this repository and each have their own requirements.
• As of 1/31/2023, we've got the SharpAudoId, SharpExpressions, SharpPipes, and SharpSimulator packages ready to run. Just grab them from NuGet like you'd pull in the SharpWrapper package.

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Development Setup

• NOTE: As of 2/17/2023 - I've closed down the readonly access for anyone to use. If you want to use these packages, please contact zack.walsh@meatinc.autos for an API key, and someone will walk you through getting into this package repository. This decision was made after realizing that while the key was readonly and on a dedicated bot account, it's not the best idea to leave API keys exposed. And since making these projects public, it was only logical to remove the keys from here.
• If you're looking to help develop this project, you'll need to add the NuGet server for the MEAT Inc workspace into your nuget configuration.
• To do so, navigate to your AppData\Roaming folder (You can do this by opening windows explorer and clicking the top path bar and typing %appdata%)
• Now find the folder named NuGet and open the file named NuGet.config
• Inside this file, under packageSources, you need to add a new source. Insert the following line into here

   <add key="MEAT-Inc" value="https://nuget.pkg.github.com/MEAT-Inc/index.json/" protocolVersion="3" />

• Once added in, scroll down to packageSourceCredentials (if it's not there, just make a new section for it)
• Inside this section, put the following block of code into it.

   <MEAT-Inc>
      <add key="Username" value="meatincreporting" />
      <add key="ClearTextPassword" value="{INSERT_API_KEY_HERE}" />
   </MEAT-Inc>

• Once added in, save this file and close it out.
• Your NuGet.config should look something like this. This will allow you to access the packages inside the MEAT Inc repo/workspaces to be able to build the solution.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
        <configuration>
            <packageSources>
                <add key="nuget.org" value="https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json" protocolVersion="3" />
                <add key="MEAT-Inc" value="https://nuget.pkg.github.com/MEAT-Inc/index.json/" protocolVersion="3" />
            </packageSources>
            <packageSourceCredentials>
                <MEAT-Inc>
                    <add key="Username" value="meatincreporting" />
                    <add key="ClearTextPassword" value="{INSERT_API_KEY_HERE}" />
                </MEAT-Inc>
            </packageSourceCredentials>
            <packageRestore>
                <add key="enabled" value="True" />
                <add key="automatic" value="True" />
            </packageRestore>
            <bindingRedirects>
                <add key="skip" value="False" />
            </bindingRedirects>
            <packageManagement>
                <add key="format" value="1" />
                <add key="disabled" value="True" />
            </packageManagement>
        </configuration> 
  

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Questions, Comments, Concerns?

• I don't wanna hear it...
• But feel free to send an email to zack.walsh@meatinc.autos. He might feel like being generous sometimes...
• Or if you're feeling like a good little nerd, make an issue on this repo's project and I'll take a peek at it.