Streaming Structured Item Class

Data items represent a single piece of data related to a device.

A streaming structured item is a data item which represents structured data. This structured data defines how other scalar and structured items can be packaged together for a streaming transport method such as sACN E1.31 / DMX-512 E1.11. A streaming structured item class provides information about how to read (and write, if supported) the data associated with a streaming structured item. A streaming structured item class defines several attributes about a streaming structured item.

Attributes

Class attributes are part of the streaming structured item class; they apply to all instances of a streaming structured item of this class.

ID (Required)

A streaming structured item class’s id is a string identifying an individual streaming structured item class. This must be unique within the Library or Streaming Structured Items object that contains the streaming structured item class.

Name (Required)

A string containing the human-readable name of the streaming structured item.

Description

A string that describes the purpose of a streaming structured item in human-readable language.

Markup

Example:

{
  "udrtype": "streamingstructureditemclass",
  "id": "dmx-profile",
  "name": "DMX Profile",
  "description": "Describes a supported operating mode of a device and the dmx protocol translation in that mode."
}