#28 pvaSrv handling of request for structure element returns whole struct

[Kay Kasemir]

When starting the pvaSrv belongs to Ralph so I will let him respond.

Ralph here is an example

When using pvaSrv to access iocCore records, a request for an element of the timeStamp structure will return the whole structure:

cd /home/hg/pvDatabaseCPP/exampleDatabase/iocBoot/exampleDatabase
../../bin/linux-x86_64/exampleDatabase st.cmd

pvget -r "field(timeStamp.userTag)" double00
double00
structure
time_t timeStamp
long secondsPastEpoch 631152000
int nanoSeconds 0
int userTag 0

In contrast, a pvDatabase record would only return the requested field:

pvget -r "field(timeStamp.userTag)" exampleDouble
exampleDouble
structure
structure timeStamp
int userTag 0

[Ralph Lange]

Ticket moved from /p/epics-pvdata/issues/11/

[Ralph Lange]

Moved to GitHub (pvaSrv Issue #5)