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Subject: RE: dbVerify removed from EPICS 3.16
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 06:43:53 +0000
Hmm.  An external linting problem doesn't fit my application very well.

How do you validate field assignments in your application, Michael?  I need to be able to do something like the following:

>>> a = records.ao('TEST')
>>> a.DRVL = 'wrong'
AssertionError: Can't write "test" to field DRVL: not a number
>>> a.DRVL = 123
>>> a.SCAN = 'wrong'
AssertionError: Can't write "wrong" to field SCAN: Not a valid menu choice
>>> a.SCAN = '.1 second'
>>> 


From: Michael Davidsaver [mailto:[email protected]]
> If you're interested in static validation of db/dbd files, you might
> have a look at my 'dbdlint' script.  This can either validate individual
> files for basic syntax (--partial), or a full database w/ recordtype
> defs (--full).
> 
> This includes a handy (to me) feature to detect unintentional "external"
> links (aka typos).
> 
> > $ cat test.db
> > #: external("other.VAL")
> >
> > record(longin, "target") {
> >     field(INP, "other")
> > }
> >
> > record(longin, "ok") {
> >     field(INP, "targt") # oops
> > }
> > $ ./dbdlint -F -Wall /path/to/base/dbd/softIoc.dbd test.db
> > WARNING test.db:8 ext-link - DB/CA Link to outside PV 'targt.VAL'
> 
> 
> 
> https://github.com/epicsdeb/pypdb/blob/master/documentation/dbdlint.rst
> https://github.com/epicsdeb/pypdb/blob/master/dbdlint.1.txt
> https://github.com/epicsdeb/pypdb
> 
> 
> On 09/19/2017 01:00 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > On 09/19/2017 04:34 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> >
> >> I have just discovered that the dbVerify function has been removed from
> >> EPICS 3.16.  I use the functionality provided by this function to
> >> validate databases as they are statically constructed (in iocbuilder
> >> and epicsdbbuilder).  At present DLS is still using EPICS 3.14, so I am
> >> only learning about this from external reports.


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