smok 0.6b2

Library for writing services that behave as SMOK devices

SMOK

smok is a definitive library to write programs that behave as SMOK devices. It is principally a consumer of the SMOK API.

Change log

v0.6

• add BAOBs

v0.5

• added automatic log compression
• superficial print() removed
• added sensor database
• increased the startup delay to begin communication by 5 seconds to 10 seconds
  • this delay is now programmable
• fixed a bug with updating metadata
• removed a debug log upon syncing pathpoints

v0.4

• fixed a bug where LogPublisherThread would throw during shutdown
• API will return a ResponseError if something fails
• fixed a bug where log records sent to the server were not formatted correctly
• logging was adjusted
• when formatting the log record fails, it's message will be appended along with it's args
• fixed a critical bug with storing pathpoint values
• fixed a bug with executor not recognizing the default execute_a_section
• fixed a bug wherein timestamps were written 1000 times larger than necessary
• pathpoints will be uploaded as soon as there's new data

v0.3

• added SMOKDevice._execute_message_order
• log publisher has now a timeout
• clarified Pathpoint.get_archive
• improving handling error messages from the API

v0.2

• renamed from smok-client to smok

v0.0.11

• fixed closing Events
• added pickling Event and Macro
• on_read Future can now return None

v0.0.10

• added Pathpoint.get_archive
• definitively removed set metadata
• added custom SMOKDevice.execute_section

v0.0.9

• added PicklingMetadataDatabase
• added SMOKDevice.sync_sections
• added SMOKDevice.open_event and SMOKDevice.close_event and SMOKDevice.get_all_open_events

v0.0.8

• added support for plain metadata

v0.0.7

• added logging

v0.0.6

• renamed BaseEventDatabase.get_data_to_sync to BaseEventDatabase.get_events_to_sync

v0.0.5

• added an option not to start macros and archives
• added slots to BaseDatabases

v0.0.4

• added setting and reading linkstate and instrumentation metadata for slave devices
• added a true macro database

v0.0.3

• added pluggable pathpoint value databases
• Section is now a Future
• bugfix: timestamp from restored data would be needlessly bumped up
• added option to create Events