2024-04-17, by Frank Delporte
Robert von Burg is working on improvements of the I2C implementation in Pi4J in preparation for the next release. The changes are in pull request #351. It’s still work-in-progress but will bring these improvements:
I2C.execute(Callable) method to allow to atomically execute multiple I2C calls in a thread in a safe way.I2C.writeRead(byte[], byte[]) method to atomically perform a write, immediately followed by a read on the I2C bus.LinuxFsI2CBus was closed when closing an I2C device. This can lead to errors as another device might still be open on the same bus, and an operation on the underlying RandomAccessFile would lead to exceptions.I2C.read() on a newly created LinuxFsI2C device, if the first call was an ioctl. The device was not selected prior to the ioctl call.This kind of methods is hard to test in unit tests as they interact with real components and need to handle the data and I2C devices depending on the interaction. As a solution, Robert is using a test project that has an implementation for an OLED display over I2C, using these commands.