Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:59:02 +0200

On Thursday, October 10, 2013 15:07:49 Dudley, David wrote:
> Sorry for butting in on this, and I'm probably not qualified to inject
> into this, but has anyone ever considered something like a 'lint'
> syntax checker program to verify that the DB is basically right?
>
> I mean, I agree that things should be 'exact match' matching, but it'd
> be nice to have some kind of filter program to tell you that you
> misspelled something, or got the wrong case, or got an incorrect
> option, or the whole thing is just so wrong it can't figure out what
> to do with it (like trying to load a file you edited in Wordpad, and
> forgot to save in text format or something - not admitting I've done
> that…).
>
> Waiting till you load the db into the IOC just seems like an
> 'all-or-nothing' approach that can lead to these kind of errors.

There used to be a program named 'dbst' that could (among other things)
be used to this effect. It doesn't look like it's being actively
maintained. The command line syntax is a bit crude if you ask me, it
would be nice if someone gave it some loving attention...

Cheers
Ben
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"Make it so they have to reboot after every typo." ― Scott Adams

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System