#94 Polling status and alias

[Emmanuel Taurel]

Hola a todos

I am using Jive 3.8 with TangORB 4.9.2 and ATK 2.5.1
I think there is a bug in the Test Device panel if it
has been opened using a device alias name and if you
are requesting for the polling status on the admin tab.
You get an error telling you that the device name
<alias name> is unknown.

Cheers

Emmanuel Taurel (etaurel@cells.es)

[Jean Luc PONS]

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Hello,

I don't think this is a Jive problem. To get the polling status, Jive execute
DevPollStatus on the admin device and pass the device name (or alias name) as argin. But
the test device panel does not make difference between alias and device name and i don't
think (may be i'm wrong) that there is a way to detect if the given name is an alias or a
device name. We can imagine that Jive detects when the test device panel is launched from
an alias but the device panel can be also launch directly from the command line with a
device name (or alias) as argument, in this case there is no way to detect if the given
argument is an alias or not. IMHO, a clean solution would be to make the DevPollStatus
command work with alias.

[Emmanuel Taurel]

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Hola,

I agree with you, it's much better to fix this problem in the admin device DevPollStatus command code.
I close this bug and I open a new one in the kernel lib category in order not to forget it.

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Emmanuel Taurel (etaurel@cells.es)

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Bug fixed in Tango 6