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Subject: Re: dbl output and record name aliases
From: "Kasemir, Kay" <[email protected]>
To: Ralph Lange <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS Core-Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 14:09:19 +0000
Hi:

IRMIS and the SNS 'crawler' that's derived from it go to quite some length parsing the st.cmd file and expanding macros in there to locate and finally parse the *.db files.
Would be great to get more of that information from the IOC shell:  record name, type, fields-defined-in-*.db file

Could that be done by adding "-.." options to the existing dbl command?

  dbl -type -alias -fields 

The plain ASCII listing was OK for "dbl" that lists just record names, but it gets problematic if there are multiple columns of output.
Since some sites have record names with ':', '{', .. in it, the format should handle those.
If you're now thinking about adding a column for record type, next a column for alias name, later maybe columns for plain fields, 'info' fields, .., the format should allow adding columns without breaking parsers that were written before those new columns got added.
XML or JSON already allow for all that, and would be better than creating a new format just for this record-list output.

Thanks,
Kay

On Jan 6, 2015, at 4:03 AM, Ralph Lange <[email protected]>
 wrote:
> Many installations use the output of a 'dbl' command on an IOC to create a "list of records on this IOC" file that gets scanned by some other service. (E.g. IRMIS, ChannelFinder, PV search databases, etc.)
> 
> The 'dbl' command lists alias names as if they were records, with no distinction.
> In many cases this is desired (e.g. for a PV search database), in other cases listing only names of "real" records would be preferred (e.g. for consistency checks, some ChannelFinder applications).
> 
> Running 'dbl "" NAME' does create something that shows that extra information (both sides are equal for a record, else the left side is an alias for the right side) but obviously changes the output format.
> 
> What would be the smartest way to allow both options and make everyone happy?
> Should we go for an entirely new command with a new output format that maybe also shows the record type? ('dbl' with empty arg1 loops over the types, but does not show them.)
> One-line-per-record-straight-ascii or XMLish?



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Re: dbl output and record name aliases Michael Davidsaver
Re: dbl output and record name aliases Johnson, Andrew N.
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