Get the type of a PV in C++ API

[Eusebio Naif Al-Soliman Fuentes via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Hello everybody.

 

I have a small question. In the pvaClient library for C++ (https://docs.epics-controls.org/projects/pvaclient-cpp/en/latest/) there are many examples to get the value and other fields of a PV.

 

However, in order to get the value as a double, like in this example https://github.com/epics-rip/exampleCPP/blob/master/exampleClient/src/examplePvaClientGet.cpp, you have to previously know that the PV value is a double. Is there any method to get the type (int, long, double...) of the value field? Something like ->getType().

 

Thanks in advance.

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Saludos/Best regards

University of Granada  

Eusebio Naif Al-Soliman Fuentes
MSc. Data Science and Computer Engineering

eunaif@correo.ugr.es