Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Zimoch Dirk \(PSI\) via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:40:39 +0000

On Wed, 2022-06-29 at 12:24 +0000, Kasemir, Kay wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> > > > The error "Record does not accept input" happens when you send a string (parsed with %s) to a record with an
> enum
> > > > VAL
> > > > like your mbbi, but the string does not match any of the enum strings in the record.
> > > > As your record only has "STANDBY", "OPERATE" and "SELFTEST", it does not accept the input "MONITOR".
> > > The mbbi should be in INVALID/CALC alarm state after that.
> > Except.... that your record is "I/O Intr". Such records get all the available input but process only matching input.
> > Non-matching input is silently ignored. That is by design how StreamDevice implements I/O Intr.
> 
> That all makes sense.
> SCAN=I/O Intr checks everything but only reacts on match.
> Anything else is assumed to be meant for some other record and thus ignored.
> 
> Maybe the issue could be avoided by changing the message from
>   error .. does not accept input 'MONITOR'
> to something like
>    info .. value 'MONITOR' ignored because outside of expected values.
> ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Kay

Actually I think, the error message should be suppressed for "I/O Intr" records.
And what you said for all others.

Dirk

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System