ODX Commander

Visual Studio Code extension that provides additional views and commands to browse diagnostic data sets in ODX format.

Features

Getting Started

Before you can browse any data you have to choose an appropriate ODX data source first. If you intend to browse ODX data sets only, choose indexing a single PDX container. However if you want to edit ODX documents also, choose indexing a folder of upacked ODX files.

NOTE: Sophisticated error diagnostics for ODX documents is not yet provided. Be careful when editing underlying XML files to avoid erroneous state!

Indexing PDX containers

Open a folder that contains the PDX file in VS Code and select 'Set or Update ODX Index' in the context menu of the selected PDX file.

Indexing unpacked ODX files

Open a folder that contains all unpacked ODX files in VS Code and select 'Set or Update ODX Index' in the context of the selected folder or any contained ODX file.

• Both options above will automatically update the extension configuration 'Active Index Location' which you can also set in the settings editor directly.

Diagnostic Layers

The Diagnostic Layers container shows layer related information and the appropriate structure for

• Protocols (Purple)
• Functional Groups (Blue)
• Shared Data (Red)
• Base Variants (Yellow)
• ECU Variants (Green)

Each layer is represented by a distinct color to indicate at which location in the ODX hierarchy a diagnostic element is defined. (e.g. if the request's icon is a yellow square the request is defined in a base variant)

Diagnostic Categories

The Diagnostic Categories container shows information for the remaining ODX categories

• Vehicle Informations
• Comparams
• Comparam Subsets
• ECU Config
• Function Dictionaries
• ECU Jobs
• Flash Data

Vehicle Information

Vehicle Informations overview lists all available VEHICLE-INFO-SPEC documents in the current ODX index and highlights most relevant information in a simple tree structure.

For any logical link that configures communication parametes via LINK-COMPARAM-REF all that parameters, values and appropriate units are shown. Parameter values that vary from their physical default values are prepended with a warning icon.

For convenience the logical links BASE-VARIANT-REF target is selectable in the tree.

Requirements

Java 8 or higher must be installed on your system.

Known Issues

Unknown