Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Thu, 4 Feb 2021 10:52:51 -0800

On 2/3/21 5:23 PM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
...
> How about improving the error message by printing the choices list from
> dbPutString() in a way which invites copy+paste?
> 
>> Can't set "foo.SCAN" to "10 seconds" Extraneous characters
>> Error at or before ")" in path "."  file "badchoice.db" line 2
>> dbLoadRecords: failed to load 'badchoice.db'
>> Error: Failed to load: badchoice.db
> 
> might become

Ok, this is the best I have time for today.  Not perfect, as you can see
it gets my "Pensive" wrong.  Maybe someone knows a better similarity algorithm?

https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/pull/104

> Can't set "bar.DTYP" to "Soft Chanel" Not devsup for ai : No digits to convert
>     Did you mean "Soft Channel"?
> Error at or before ")" in path "."  file "badchoice.db" line 2
> Can't set "baz.IVOA" to "Set output To IVOV" using menuIvoa.dbd : No digits to convert
>     Did you mean "Set output to IVOV"?
> ErrorCan't set "foo.SCAN" to "Pensive" using menuScan.dbd : No digits to convert
>     Did you mean "I/O Intr"?

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System