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Subject: Re: Question on Accessing Data in Custom PV Structures
From: Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
To: "Srinivas, Dhruv" <srinivas1 at llnl.gov>
Cc: "tech-talk at aps.anl.gov" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2023 18:05:21 -0700
On 7/7/23 14:03, Srinivas, Dhruv via Tech-talk wrote:
To whom it may concern,

I’m attempting to create custom PVStructures which contain differing normative types. At the moment, I’ve created the below code in an IOC which creates a PV Structure with 2 NTScalars and 1 NTScalarArray.

Can you say something about what you are trying to accomplish,
and what kind of client(s) will consume this data structure?


record(ai, "rec:X") {

                field(VAL, "20")

                field(HIGH, "30")

                field(HSV, "MINOR")

                info(Q:group, {

                               "CustomDataStructure": {

                                              "X_Scalar": {

                                                             +channel:"VAL"

                                              }

                               }

                })

}

record(ai, "rec:Y") {

                field(VAL, "40")

                info(Q:group, {

                               "CustomDataStructure": {

                                              "Y_Scalar": {

                                                             +type:"scalar",

                                                             +channel:"VAL",

                                                             +id:"MyTestingPVA2PVA",

                                              }

                               }

                })

}

record(aai, "input_this") {

                field(NELM, "4")

                field(FTVL, "INT64")

                field(INP, "[1,2,3,4]")

                info(Q:group, {

                               "CustomDataStructure": {

                                              "Z_Aray": {

                                                             +channel:"VAL"

                                              }

                               }

                })

}

At the moment, this does create the PV Structure, and I can access it through “pvget”. However I’m unsure if this is the right way to do this. Can someone with more experience with Epics v7 correct me if so? Also, I’m not sure how to go about accessing parts of “CustomDataStructure”. Namely how would I go about accessing the value for Y_Scalar through CustomDataStructure?

I’ve also copied the output of pvget below. I apologize for the lengthy post, but I thought it was best to provide as much context as possible.

  * pvget CustomDataStructure

CustomDataStructure MyTestingPVA2PVA

     structure record

         structure _options

             uint queueSize 0

             boolean atomic true

     epics:nt/NTScalar:1.0 X_Scalar

         double value 20

         alarm_t alarm

             int severity 0

             int status 2

             string message UDF

         structure timeStamp

             long secondsPastEpoch 631152000

             int nanoseconds 0

             int userTag 0

         structure display

             double limitLow 0

             double limitHigh 0

             string description

             string units

             int precision 0

             enum_t form (0) Default

                 int index 0

                 string[] choices [Default, String, Binary, Decimal, Hex, Exponential, Engineering]

         control_t control

             double limitLow 0

             double limitHigh 0

             double minStep 0

         valueAlarm_t valueAlarm

             boolean active false

             double lowAlarmLimit nan

             double lowWarningLimit nan

             double highWarningLimit 30

             double highAlarmLimit nan

             int lowAlarmSeverity 0

             int lowWarningSeverity 0

             int highWarningSeverity 0

             int highAlarmSeverity 0

             byte hysteresis 0

     epics:nt/NTScalar:1.0 Y_Scalar

         double value 40

         alarm_t alarm

             int severity 0

             int status 2

             string message UDF

         structure timeStamp

             long secondsPastEpoch 631152000

             int nanoseconds 0

             int userTag 0

         structure display

             double limitLow 0

             double limitHigh 0

             string description

             string units

             int precision 0

             enum_t form (0) Default

                 int index 0

                 string[] choices [Default, String, Binary, Decimal, Hex, Exponential, Engineering]

         control_t control

             double limitLow 0

             double limitHigh 0

             double minStep 0

         valueAlarm_t valueAlarm

             boolean active false

             double lowAlarmLimit nan

             double lowWarningLimit nan

             double highWarningLimit nan

             double highAlarmLimit nan

             int lowAlarmSeverity 0

             int lowWarningSeverity 0

             int highWarningSeverity 0

             int highAlarmSeverity 0

             byte hysteresis 0

     epics:nt/NTScalarArray:1.0 Z_Scalar

         long[] value [1,2,3,4]

         alarm_t alarm INVALID DRIVER UDF

             int severity 3

             int status 2

             string message UDF

         structure timeStamp

             long secondsPastEpoch 631152000

             int nanoseconds 0

             int userTag 0

         structure display

             double limitLow 0

             double limitHigh 0

             string description

             string units

             int precision 0

             enum_t form (0) Default

                 int index 0

                 string[] choices [Default, String, Binary, Decimal, Hex, Exponential, Engineering]

         control_t control

             double limitLow 0

             double limitHigh 0

             double minStep 0

         valueAlarm_t valueAlarm

             boolean active false

             double lowAlarmLimit nan

             double lowWarningLimit nan

             double highWarningLimit nan

             double highAlarmLimit nan

             int lowAlarmSeverity 0

             int lowWarningSeverity 0

             int highWarningSeverity 0

             int highAlarmSeverity 0

             byte hysteresis 0

Sincerely,

Dhruv Srinivas

srinivas1 at llnl.gov <mailto:srinivas1 at llnl.gov>



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