Experimental Physics and
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Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <[email protected]> · Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:55:28 -0800

On 12/13/18 5:56 AM, Dirk Zimoch via Tech-talk wrote:
> Hi William,
> 
> Even though the INP Length in EPICS 7 is not unlimited, StreamDevice may nor be able to read it. 78 bytes was the effective limit of INP/OUT in EPICS 3.14. Meanwhile I have changed my buffers from 80 to 256 bytes but not yet to "unlimited" (which is a bigger change).

In case someone is motived to help.

The buffers:

https://github.com/paulscherrerinstitute/StreamDevice/blob/acf7efcff2e29a997a5c2d21629d7ef64f1e19de/src/StreamEpics.cc#L536-L542

Parsing with sscanf()

https://github.com/paulscherrerinstitute/StreamDevice/blob/acf7efcff2e29a997a5c2d21629d7ef64f1e19de/src/StreamEpics.cc#L701-L753

> However your string is cur at 78 chars like in EPICS 3.14.
> 
> I will check this with EPICS 7....
> 
> Dirk
> 
> On 13.12.2018 09:46, William Kirstaedter via Tech-talk wrote:
>> unlimited cant be the case, unfortunately. I'm running EPICS7 and facing the following error when starting the IOC:
>>
>> 2018/12/13 09:42:51.409543 _main_ Missing ')' after substitutions 'readModule(EN,CRYVISIL:LEED:ENgain,CRYVISIL:LEED:ENoffset,CRYVISIL:LEED:ENvalue,LEED_01'
>> 2018/12/13 09:42:51.409621 _main_ CRYVISIL:LEED:getEN: Protocol parse error
>> 2018/12/13 09:42:51.409642 _main_ CRYVISIL:LEED:getEN: Record initialization failed
>>
>> with these records and streamprotocol:
>>
>> # Energy
>> record(stringin, "$(P):$(R):getEN") {
>> field(DTYP,"stream")
>> field(INP,"@leed.proto readModule(EN,$(P):$(R):ENgain,$(P):$(R):ENoffset,$(P):$(R):ENvalue,$(P):$(R):ENmonitorU,$(P):$(R):ENmonitorI) $(PORT)")
>> }
>> record(ai, "$(P):$(R):ENgain") {
>> field(DESC,"Energy Gain")
>> field(EGU,"eV")
>> field(PREC,"2")
>> }
>> record(ai, "$(P):$(R):ENoffset") {
>> field(DESC,"Energy Offset")
>> field(EGU,"eV")
>> field(PREC,"2")
>> }
>> record(ai, "$(P):$(R):ENvalue") {
>> field(DESC,"Energy Value")
>> field(EGU,"eV")
>> field(PREC,"2")
>> }
>> record(ai, "$(P):$(R):ENmonitorU") {
>> field(DESC,"Energy Voltage Monitor")
>> field(EGU,"eV")
>> field(PREC,"2")
>> }
>> record(ai, "$(P):$(R):ENmonitorI") {
>> field(DESC,"Energy Current Monitor")
>> field(PREC,"2")
>> field(EGU,"A")
>> }
>> ------------
>> OutTerminator= CR;
>> InTerminator= "\r\000\n>";
>> readModule{
>> # $1 : Module Name -> REN (read energy)
>> out"R\$1";
>> # answer: R $1 r NUL n $1 (what out "typed in" plus return) $1|SP|GAIN|SP|OFFSET|SP|VALUE|SP|U-monitor|SP|I-monitor (the actual answer)
>> # >REN
>> # EN +0 +500 +500 +500.85 +1.5653E-06
>> in"R\$1\r\000\n\$1%(\$2)f%(\$3)f%(\$4)f%(\$5)f%(\$6)f";
>> }
>>
>> William Kirstaedter (PP&B)
>> Fritz-Haber-Institut der MPG
>> Faradayweg 4-6
>> 14195 Berlin
>> Tel: 030 8413 5405
>> Mail:[email protected]
>>
>> Am 12.12.2018 um 17:29 schrieb Johnson, Andrew N.:
>>> On 12/12/18 8:59 AM, William Kirstaedter via Tech-talk wrote:
>>>> Short Question:
>>>>
>>>> Whats the maximum length of a record field? how many chars?
>>>>
>>>> record(ai,"record_name"){
>>>>
>>>>     field(DESC, "I_mean_this")
>>>>     field(INP, "how_long_can_this_be")
>>>>
>>>> }
>>> Longer answer:
>>>
>>> That depends on the field definition for the record type. DESC is defined in dbCommon.dbd  (a kind of super-class used by all record types) as:
>>>>         field(DESC,DBF_STRING) {
>>>>                 prompt("Descriptor")
>>>>                 promptgroup("10 - Common")
>>>>                 size(41)
>>>>         }
>>> That means it's a DBF_STRING and the size() entry says it can hold up to 41 characters, but there must be a zero-byte terminator so the limit is really 40 (which matches the Channel Access dbr_string_t typedef).
>>>
>>> For something like the ZRST field of the mbbi record which defines an enumeration string, the size is given as 26 which is the size of the enumeration strings that Channel Access can send in a struct dbr_gr_enum.
>>>
>>> An INP or OUT field is a link and for these the maximum length depends on the version of EPICS you're running; it might be 40 for older versions, 80, 256 for some or unlimited for EPICS-7.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>>
>>> - Andrew
>>> -- 
>>> Arguing for surveillance because you have nothing to hide is no
>>> different than making the claim, "I don't care about freedom of
>>> speech because I have nothing to say." -- Edward Snowdon

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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