Fix create sensor failure after process restart

When the virtual-sensor process is intentionally restarted, the
createVirtualSensors method will only create sensors with Type equal
to ModifiedMedian, so if other types of sensors (eg: Sum, Minimum,
Maximum, etc.) are configured in EM.json, they will not be loaded.

This commit will remove the `Type` and create the sensor by
traversing the calculationIfaces when parsing to 'Config: D-Bus'.

Change-Id: I4a22bd2eef26e745e770acb260616374b5aba89b
Signed-off-by: George Liu <liuxiwei@ieisystem.com>
2 files changed
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  2. test/
  3. .clang-format
  4. .editorconfig
  5. .gitignore
  6. .prettierrc.yaml
  7. calculate.cpp
  8. calculate.hpp
  9. dbusSensor.cpp
  10. dbusSensor.hpp
  11. dbusUtils.cpp
  12. dbusUtils.hpp
  13. exprtkTools.hpp
  14. LICENSE
  15. main.cpp
  16. meson.build
  17. meson.options
  18. OWNERS
  19. phosphor-virtual-sensor.service.in
  20. README.md
  21. thresholds.hpp
  22. virtual_sensor_config.json
  23. virtualSensor.cpp
  24. virtualSensor.hpp
README.md

phosphor-virtual-sensor

phosphor-virtual-sensor reads the configuration file virtual_sensor_config.json from one of three locations:

  1. The current directory.
  2. /var/lib/phosphor-virtual-sensor
  3. /usr/share/phosphor-virtual-sensor

By default the repository will install a sample config into (3).

There are two types of data in this file.

virtual sensor configuration information

See virtual_sensor_config.json in this repository for an example. Sensors added this way can use any expression that is accepted by exprtk.

information to get a virtual sensor configuration from D-Bus

For example:

{
  "Desc": {
    "Config": "D-Bus"
  }
}

Sensors added this way can only use a set of restricted calculations. Currently supported types are Average, Maximum, Minimum, Sum and ModifiedMedian.

The virtual sensor configuration information needs to be added into the relevant hardware configuration file in entity-manager. This method of adding a virtual sensor allows a recipe that builds for different hardware configurations to have different virtual sensors for each configuration.

The virtual sensor configuration in entity manager follows a different format to the JSON in virtual_sensor_config.json (specified in entity-manager/schemas/VirtualSensor.json).