Support for serialport v6

[ekawahyu]

When would be the timeline for virtual-serialport to support serialport v6? According to node-serialport documentation, 'data' event is not a preferable way to read from the serial port. Instead, it suggests to use .read().

So, when I use other libraries that support serialport v6, they mostly don't listen to 'data' event anymore. The virtual-serialport is broken in this regard. I have no idea how to move forward to fix this issue.

[ekawahyu]

Here is the recently updated h5.modbus with support only for serialport > 6:
https://github.com/ekawahyu/h5.modbus/tree/master

I made a branch to support 'data' event temporarily here:
https://github.com/ekawahyu/h5.modbus/tree/fix/virtual-serialport-support

Please help to make some necessary changes to make it work with the latest h5.modbus. Thank you.

[Apollon77]

Also the parsers have changed and a lot more ...

[Apollon77]

Additionally: Maybe an update for serialport 6.x is not needed at all ...
Serialport 6 has a "Mocking" feature where you can define a port and can interact in a comparable way with serialport directly.
Currently you need to have direct access to the initialized Serialport instance, but maybe they change it (i opened an issue with them or this).

[Lucas-C]

Serialport 6 has a "Mocking" feature where you can define a port and can interact in a comparable way with serialport directly.

Indeed, this lib is no longer necesseray: https://serialport.io/docs/api-binding-mock

[Apollon77]

@Lucas-C Really?

What about

Currently you need to have direct access to the initialized Serialport instance, but maybe they change it (i opened an issue with them or this).

I think this is even not changed in the MockBinding

[Lucas-C]

I introduced a MockBinding.getOpenMockPort() method in this PR: serialport/binding-mock#20
I use it on my project with patch-package to get access to the MockPortBinding.
Just sharing, maybe that won't answer your need, but I hope it can help 😊

[Apollon77]

That indeed could work