Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Dirk Zimoch via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:59:32 -0000

> QSRV does not compute group or member names automatically. So I think
this is a request for whatever person or tool is creating the group
definition JSON for you.

When the "tool" is dbLoadTemplate and you use macros, then you would to
provide two of them, one for the originam PV name and one for the PVA
field name. Without a mechanism to replace chars automatically, this is
very error prone. Something like ${MACRO "but all - replaced with _"},
maybe: ${MACRO/[^0-9a-zA-Z]/_}

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Title:
  Invalid charactor in field name

Status in EPICS Base:
  New

Bug description:
  When creating a group in QSRV, the allowed characters are too
  restrictive

  error:
  Error Group not created: Invalid charactor '-' (45) in field name "BI02-TimeRise" must be A-Z, a-z, 0-9, or '_'

  expected behaviour:
  pva structures should allow for a more liberal set of characters that just what is covered by \w regex metacharacter.

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System