Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] · Tue, 7 May 2013 16:07:37 +0200

Hello,

while using the PVManager inside of CSS 3.1 I got the following error:

2013-04-30 14:03:03,341 WARN  [main] de.ptb.epics.eve.util.pv.PVWrapper:
*************: gov.aps.jca.dbr.DBR_TIME_Int cannot be cast to
gov.aps.jca.dbr.DBR_TIME_Short
java.lang.ClassCastException: gov.aps.jca.dbr.DBR_TIME_Int cannot be cast
to gov.aps.jca.dbr.DBR_TIME_Short
    at org.epics.pvmanager.jca.JCAVTypeAdapterSet$4.createValue
(JCAVTypeAdapterSet.java:63)
    at org.epics.pvmanager.jca.JCAVTypeAdapterSet$4.createValue
(JCAVTypeAdapterSet.java:1)
    at org.epics.pvmanager.jca.JCATypeAdapter.updateCache
(JCATypeAdapter.java:93)
    at org.epics.pvmanager.jca.JCATypeAdapter.updateCache
(JCATypeAdapter.java:1)
    at org.epics.pvmanager.MultiplexedChannelHandler
$MonitorHandler.processValue(MultiplexedChannelHandler.java:49)
    at org.epics.pvmanager.MultiplexedChannelHandler.processMessage
(MultiplexedChannelHandler.java:276)
    at org.epics.pvmanager.jca.JCAChannelHandler.access$8
(JCAChannelHandler.java:1)
    at org.epics.pvmanager.jca.JCAChannelHandler$2.monitorChanged
(JCAChannelHandler.java:249)
    at gov.aps.jca.event.DirectEventDispatcher.dispatch
(DirectEventDispatcher.java:84)
    at com.cosylab.epics.caj.CAJMonitor.monitorChanged(CAJMonitor.java:251)
    at gov.aps.jca.event.DirectEventDispatcher.dispatch
(DirectEventDispatcher.java:155)
    at com.cosylab.epics.caj.impl.requests.EventAddRequest.response
(EventAddRequest.java:213)
    at
com.cosylab.epics.caj.impl.handlers.EventAddResponse.internalHandleResponse
(EventAddResponse.java:57)
    at
com.cosylab.epics.caj.impl.handlers.AbstractCAResponseHandler.handleResponse
(AbstractCAResponseHandler.java:110)
    at com.cosylab.epics.caj.impl.CAResponseHandler.handleResponse
(CAResponseHandler.java:139)
    at com.cosylab.epics.caj.impl.CATransport.processRead
(CATransport.java:530)
    at com.cosylab.epics.caj.impl.CATransport.processRead
(CATransport.java:412)
    at com.cosylab.epics.caj.impl.CATransport.handleEvent
(CATransport.java:350)
    at
com.cosylab.epics.caj.impl.reactor.lf.LeaderFollowersHandler.handleEvent
(LeaderFollowersHandler.java:77)
    at com.cosylab.epics.caj.impl.reactor.Reactor.processInternal
(Reactor.java:400)
    at com.cosylab.epics.caj.impl.reactor.Reactor.process(Reactor.java:284)
    at com.cosylab.epics.caj.impl.reactor.lf.LeaderFollowersHandler.run
(LeaderFollowersHandler.java:91)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker
(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run
(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)

I first checked the JavaDoc of PVManager on how to connect a PV and did
exactly that:

	this.pv = PVManager.readAndWrite(channel(pvname)).notifyOn(swtThread
()).asyncWriteAndReadEvery(ms(pvUpdateInterval));

The exception occured in the pvChanged() method:

	Object newVal = pv.getValue();
	Exception e = pv.lastException();
	if (e != null) {
		logger.warn(pvName + ": " + e.getMessage(), e);
	}

Afterwards I downloaded the products NSLS-II 3.1.6 and SNS 3.1.4 (both
Linux 32 bit). There I used the PVTable and added the PV that has the above
mentioned problems.
One of them just has the PV colored red, the other showed the error above
and afterwards something like not connected, trying again in 5 sec ? (don't
know which of them did what anymore).

A cainfo of the PVs involved gives:

    State:         connected
    Host:          ***********
    Access:        read, no write
    Data type:     DBR_SHORT (native: DBF_SHORT)
    Element count: 1

PVs of type short with access read and write have the same problem.
! Note that the same behaviour occurs for Double/Float pairs...

One possible (and planned) solution is to upgrade to CSS 3.2 with PVManager
2 API, but maybe there is another solution ?

Thanks
Marcus Michalsky

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System