On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 20:22, Johnson, Andrew N. via Core-talk <
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On 1/14/19 11:13 AM, Michael Davidsaver via Core-talk wrote:
> On 1/14/19 8:30 AM, Ralph Lange via Core-talk wrote:
>> Make that a client that only wants to check the metadata of a huge image (e.g. to decide on the image size if it wants to read the image data itself), and it's not silly anymore.
> This seems hypothetical. Has anyone ever wanted to do this? What was the motivation?
Exactly that, we had an areaDetector-connected camera on a system with a limited bandwidth,
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Isn't that discussion a call for a PVA standard "server capabilities" structure that every PVA server must implement and that - among other things like operational limits - contains a list of supported features?
~Ralph
