[standard mismatch] "Query Firmware" returns file name WITH extension

[martin-eden]

Hello, protocol.md says

The firmware name to be reported should be exactly the same as the name of the Firmata client file, minus the file extension. So for StandardFirmata.ino, the firmware name is: StandardFirmata.

But indeed file name is passed with extension.

I think it may be fixed by modifying
extension = strstr(name, ".cpp");
to

extension = strstr(name, ".cpp");
if (!extension)
  extension = strstr(name, ".ino");

Issue present in StandardFirmata from Arduino IDE v1.8.8.

[soundanalogous]

I suspect this has been broken for at least 10 years.

[mexchip]

As stated by @soundanalogous (#433 (comment)), removing the .ino extension might break some applications, so I think #433 should be closed and maybe this issue replaced by a new one in the protocol project (https://github.com/firmata/protocol), indicating that the firmware name keeps the .ino extension.

Or maybe don't touch the protocol docs and add this as a known issue in readme.md?

[mexchip]

What do you think of something like this: https://github.com/mexchip/arduino/blob/add-known-issues/readme.md#Known-issues?

(I also noticed the link to python PyMata client library was broken and fixed it)

[soundanalogous]

I will fix this in Firmata 3.0 which will include breaking changes. I don't think this needs to be called out specifically in the readme in the mean time. It's captured as an issue which I will keep open, I think that is sufficient.

[mexchip]

Ok, I've closed the pull request.