Re: pvput to channelName of NTMultiChannel is having colon parsed

[Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

On 12/10/20 8:50 PM, Paduan Donadio, Marcio via Tech-talk wrote:
> I’m trying to use pvput to insert EPICS PV names to the channelName array of a NTMultiChannel. I’ve created the NTMultiChannel with a minimum of fields, just for this first test. The error at the output says that “:” is not a known token as it is trying to parse the PV name instead of interpreting it as a generic string. I’m using EPICS base R7.0.3.1 both for the server and the clients.
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> $ pvput GMDTest:NTMultiChannel channelName="[GMDTest:NTScalar]"

Did you try:

> $ pvput GMDTest:NTMultiChannel 'channelName=["GMDTest:NTScalar"]'

This is meant to be JSON syntax, so strings need to be quoted.

 
> $ pvput GMDTest:NTMultiChannel '{"channelName":["GMDTest:NTScalar"]}'
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> JSON syntax not supported by this build.

This should work.  It was a regression fixed with >=7.0.4