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Subject: Re: I'm looking for a pvacces example to read PVStructure
From: Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <[email protected]>
To: Heinz Junkes <[email protected]>
Cc: tech-talk <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:59:08 -0700 
On 3/11/19 9:41 AM, Heinz Junkes via Tech-talk wrote:
> I'm looking for a pva example c++ program which I can currently use (with Epics 7).
> 
> Unfortunately the examples I've found on the net don't work at all.

Which examples do you mean?  Broken examples are worse than none at all,
and should be fixed or removed.

> Above all, there seems to be a little confusion between PVAClient and pvac? (Or I don't get it)

Two different "high level" interfaces to a PVA client.

My examples for PVAC (which I hope aren't broken) are:

http://epics-base.github.io/pvAccessCPP/

> I have a client that wants to read the PVStructure of a PV and then put new data  into 
> NTTable vector fields (x, y, z and time_index):

By read do you mean subscribe with Monitor, or poll with Get?

> humma-kavula:~ junkes$ pvlist 0xB9EC6A5C00000000C2AFA421
> CRYVISIL:STM:FASTSCAN:IMAGE_CHUNK
> 
> humma-kavula:~ junkes$ pvinfo CRYVISIL:STM:FASTSCAN:IMAGE_CHUNK
> CHANNEL  : CRYVISIL:STM:FASTSCAN:IMAGE_CHUNK
> STATE    : CONNECTED
> ADDRESS  : 141.14.133.59:53379
> epics:nt/NTTable:1.0
>     string[] labels
>     structure value
>         double[] x
>         double[] y
>         double[] z
>         int[] time_index
>     string descriptor
>     alarm_t alarm
>         int severity
>         int status
>         string message
>     time_t timeStamp
>         long secondsPastEpoch
>         int nanoseconds
>         int userTag
>     int counter
>
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