Naming Your Entities

The following rules apply to entity names:

1. Names are case insensitive, i.e. "WindTurbine.Rotation" will be equal to "windturbine.rotation"
2. Whitespace is not allowed
3. Only alphanumeric characters, period “.”, dash “-”, and underscore “_” are allowed
4. Must start with a letter
5. Names can be maximum 64 characters long though you should try to keep the values fairly short

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Exception

Method names cannot contain period “.”

For example the following property names are considered valid:

• Ambient.Temp
• Ambient_Temp
• Ambient.Temp01

The following property names are not valid:

• Ambient Temp Sensor
• 0_Ambient.Temp
• _Ambient.Temp
• Ambient:Temp:Sensor

For example the following method names are considered valid:

• convertTempTo_F
• setDeviceState

The following method names are not valid:

• convert.Temp.F
• _setDeviceState