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Hi,

Yes I am the original author of this software, sorry about some delays replying.

> The documentation I've found on CAS / PCAS seems to be either outdated
> (tutorials) or very thin (comments in PCAS template example code) or not
> applicable (pcaspy).

It's definitely true, sorry there is never enough time...

> Currently, I'm stuck on getting enum strings added to PVs and delivered
> to the clients. The installed "enums" function is never called in the
> server.

In the versions of EPICS base that still include the portable ca server in 
the "src/cas" directory under base, one can use the command
"makeBaseApp.pl -t caServer" to create an example CA Server application.

There are vector and scalar PV examples there, and also an example enumerated
string table via exPV::getEnums. There used to be examples included with the
source but they were removed in favor of the makeBaseApp.pl template
at some point as I recall. And now perhaps the examples are no-longer available
except in old releases of base. If you have troubles finding them, I can send a copy.
Let me know.

Also, I am actively maintaining a new CA server based on the DataAccess library 
for polymorphic user data transport which also includes the embedded Lua 
interpreter. We use this version for beam species subscriptions at LANSCE.

(current development branch) bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/~johill-lanl/epics-base/server1/
(stable) bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/~johill-lanl/epics-base/server0/ 

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Dr. Bastian Löher
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 12:45 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: CAS / PCAS documentation
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I'm working on integration of some of our (non-EPICS) software
> components with EPICS. I'd like to add CAS functionality to these
> programs instead of 'making them into an IOC'. The idea is, that these
> programs should publish a couple of PVs each to make their status
> available (mostly read-only).
> 
> My goal is to write a Server/PV library that I can use for all my
> programs and a C wrapper API to call into this library.
> 
> 
> The documentation I've found on CAS / PCAS seems to be either outdated
> (tutorials) or very thin (comments in PCAS template example code) or not
> applicable (pcaspy).
> 
> So far, I've managed to read / write floats, ints and strings, but I am
> still missing support for more complex types such as enums, arrays and
> so on.
> 
> 
> Currently, I'm stuck on getting enum strings added to PVs and delivered
> to the clients. The installed "enums" function is never called in the
> server.
> 
> 
> Can someone please point me in the direction of either documentation or
> code that I can use?
> 
> Or, as a general question: Since the PCAS library is now factored out of
> base, does that mean it will be deprecated at some point? Is there an
> alternative being developed?
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot
> Bastian
> 
> 
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