using System;

namespace Xylem.Common.Hardware.WaterMeter.Genesis.Applications
{
    /// <summary>
    /// describe a genesis register.
    /// need for read and write
    /// all request protocols uses RegisterDefinition
    /// </summary>
    public class ApplicationDefinition
    {

        /// <summary>
        /// name of the application
        /// </summary>
        public String AppName;

        /// <summary>
        /// address of application
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks date="2025-Aug-05" author="Thomas Wiedebusch">
        /// - AppId from Byte to UInt16 including typecast for Byte[] return. To external, it will be used as Byte
        ///   as before this change. But being able to parse the configuration.json with OPTICALINTERFACE using the
        ///   AppId 256, which exceeds the byte range as this isn't a real application, but will be used to identify
        ///   the interface (configuration.json) version.
        /// </remarks>
        public UInt16 AppId;

        /// <summary>
        /// version of the application
        /// </summary>
        public Int32? AppVersion;

        /// <summary>
        /// Get application name
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public String GetIdent()
        {
            return $"{AppName}";
        }
    }
}