Best way for LV app to communicate with Database/Website?
Hey all...I'm pretty experienced LabVIEW programmer but I'm in somewhat new territory here with communicating with a server/website.
We are going to have an online SQL database that stores all data that we record for our application. That database is going to have a web-based front end that will allow users to add/edit records.
On the other end, we are going to have a LabVIEW application running on a PC that will allow its users to acquire/input data, and also add/edit records for the SQL database as well. So basically a web-based client and a LV application client, which will most likely differ in functionality.
There are going to be multiple PCs running LabVIEW client
applications (let's assume upwards of 20 for now). The idea would be
that the user could:
Query the SQL database for an existing entry, and then view/edit that entry or add records to it.
Create an entirely new record.
I have played around with the database connectivity toolkit and was able to communicate with the SQL databases online, no problem. But, I'm not sure if that is the best way to do this yet because....
Here are our challenges/constraints/specifications:
Well we need this to be as low bandwidth intensive as possible as each LV client will be using a GPRS(cell phone) data connection to the internet which is pay per use. Here are my thoughts on this so far:
Having local copies of often accessed records on each machine with incremental updates to the server to minimize bandwidth for queries.
Positives/Negatives?
Send data to the server in a tagged format (XML maybe?) and then have a server-side application that parses the data and updates it to the database.
Postives/Negatives?
When updates are made using the website front-end...we would like at a minimum to be able to notify the LV client that an update has been made (like a Push data/notifier service).
How to implement?
POP3 e-mail for each LV client might be an option but is there something better?
The data types that we are working with include all standard types (numeric, text, timestamps) and also includes images (jpg) and sound files (mp3) and potentially video in the future.
Thanks and I'm looking for any and all feedback. Let me know if the problem is still fuzzy...I will try to describe in better detail.
-Aaron
Aaron Fleishman
Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer
LabVIEW 2011
MattBradley wrote:
Next question: Can the clients (easily) talk to each other -- if they can make a single file for updating the server, that could help, too.
In any case, my first thought would be to put the different priority data in different directories. Have another labview (or even a different software package) running in the background, looking for new data (more often in the high priority directories). When it sees something, copy it to the server. When the server confirms the file has arrived, delete the original one. On the server side, it would have to let the client know it received the file and then unzip it/translate it/whatever and insert it into the database.
Sound good so far?
-Matt
Matt,
Sounds good so far. Interesting idea of putting it in different directories, although I'd like to minimize file I/O as much as possible, especially between different VIs. I'm also intrigued by using .zip files to cut down on file size.
No, the clients won't easily be able to talk to each other. All messaging between clients will go through the server as well.
I guess I'm really looking for how to practically implement this as well. Like what VIs (protocol) should I be using to get the data to the server? TCP/UDP/SMTP/FTP/SQL connection/etc...I have little experience making apps communicate with a website/webserver.
-Aaron
Aaron Fleishman
Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer
LabVIEW 2011
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