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              IAdapter Methods | 
          
The IAdapter type exposes the following members.
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              Dispose | Performs application-defined tasks associated with freeing, releasing, or resetting unmanaged resources. (Inherited from IDisposable)  | 
            
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              GetShortStatus | Gets a short one-line adapter status. | 
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              Initialize | 
            Initializes the state of the object.
             (Inherited from ISupportLifecycle)  | 
            
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              SetTemporalConstraint | Defines a temporal processing constraint for the adapter. | 
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              Start | Starts the adapter, if it is not already running. | 
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              Stop | Stops the adapter. | 
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              GetMeasurementRecord | 
            Gets measurement record, creating it if needed.
             (Defined by MetadataHelpers)  | 
            
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              GetParentDevice | 
            Gets ID of parent device, creating or updating record if needed, for the current IAdapter instance.
             (Defined by MetadataHelpers)  | 
            
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              InputMeasurementKeys | 
            Returns the MeasurementKey values of the IAdapter input measurements.
             (Defined by IAdapterExtensions)  | 
            
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              LookupDevice | 
            Looks up associated device acronym and ID from provided signalID.
             (Defined by MetadataHelpers)  | 
            
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              LookupMeasurementKey | 
            Looks up or creates measurement key based on provided signalID.
             (Defined by MetadataHelpers)  | 
            
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              LookupPointTag | 
            Looks up point tag name from provided signalID.
             (Defined by MetadataHelpers)  | 
            
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              LookupSignalReference | 
            Looks up signal reference from provided signalID.
             (Defined by MetadataHelpers)  | 
            
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              OnConfigurationChanged | 
            Notifies host system of configuration changes.
             (Defined by MetadataHelpers)  | 
            
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              OutputMeasurementKeys | 
            Returns the MeasurementKey values of the IAdapter output measurements.
             (Defined by IAdapterExtensions)  | 
            
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              PointTagExists | 
            Determines if pointTag exists in local configuration.
             (Defined by MetadataHelpers)  | 
            
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              SignalIDExists | 
            Determines if signalID exists in local configuration.
             (Defined by MetadataHelpers)  | 
            
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              SignalReferenceExists | 
            Determines if signalReference exists in local configuration.
             (Defined by MetadataHelpers)  | 
            
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              TemporalConstraintIsDefined | 
            Returns true if IAdapter has a temporal constraint defined, i.e., either
            StartTimeConstraint or StopTimeConstraint is not
            set to its default value.
             (Defined by IAdapterExtensions)  | 
            
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              WaitForSignalsToLoad | 
            Waits for signalIDs to be loaded in system configuration.
             (Defined by MetadataHelpers)  |