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Subject: Re: Setting an array to zero length
From: "Kasemir, Kay via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
To: "Rogers, Will (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI)" <will.rogers at diamond.ac.uk>, "Johnson, Andrew N." <anj at anl.gov>
Cc: EPICS tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 19:20:29 +0000
> It is not currently (and may never be) possible to put a zero-length array through Channel Access;
> I don’t know if PVA and QSRV can handle them or not.

For PVAccess, the protocol has different type identifiers for scalars and arrays, so a 'double' is  clearly distinguished from a 'double []' with exactly one element.
When using an array type, the length can change at runtime and include zero length == empty array.

As for QSRV, when you create a 'compress' record with NSAM = 1, the PV is a an NTScalar. For NSAM > 1 the PV is of type NTScalarArray.
So it behaves just like the Channel Access example, an array of size 1 appears as a scalar.
Not sure if this is a quirk in QSRV that could be fixed, or if the limitation is in the database/IOC API that it needs to use.


-Kay
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