ALF: Change delimiter of SCA_WRITE_SEQUENCE from ';' to '\n'

Author: PascalBoeschoten

src/CommandLineUtilities/AliceLowlevelFrontend/AliceLowlevelFrontend.h

@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ class ScaWriteSequence: DimRpcInfoWrapper
       for (size_t i = 0; i < sequence.size(); ++i) {
         buffer << sequence[i].first << ',' << sequence[i].second;
         if (i + 1 < sequence.size()) {
-          buffer << ';';
+          buffer << '\n';
         }
       }
       return write(buffer.str());

src/CommandLineUtilities/AliceLowlevelFrontend/ProgramAliceLowlevelFrontendServer.cxx

@@ -390,11 +390,10 @@ class ProgramAliceLowlevelFrontendServer: public AliceO2::Common::Program
     {
       getInfoLogger() << "SCA_BLOB_WRITE size=" << parameter.size() << " bytes" << endm;
 
-      // We first split on ; to get the pairs of SCA command and SCA data
+      // We first split on \n to get the pairs of SCA command and SCA data
       // Since this can be an enormous list of pairs, we walk through it using the tokenizer
-      auto commandDataPairs = split(parameter, ";");
       using tokenizer = boost::tokenizer<boost::char_separator<char>>;
-      boost::char_separator<char> sep(";", "", boost::drop_empty_tokens); // Drop ";" delimiters, keep none
+      boost::char_separator<char> sep("\n", "", boost::drop_empty_tokens); // Drop '\n' delimiters, keep none
       std::stringstream resultBuffer;
       auto sca = Sca(*bar2, bar2->getCardType());
 
@@ -411,7 +410,7 @@ class ProgramAliceLowlevelFrontendServer: public AliceO2::Common::Program
           sca.write(command, data);
           auto result = sca.read();
           getInfoLogger() << (b::format("cmd=0x%x data=0x%x result=0x%x") % command % data % result.data).str() << endm;
-          resultBuffer << std::hex << result.data << ';';
+          resultBuffer << std::hex << result.data << '\n';
         } catch (const ScaException& e) {
           // If an SCA error occurs, we stop executing the sequence of commands and return the results as far as we got
           // them

src/CommandLineUtilities/AliceLowlevelFrontend/README.md

@@ -55,22 +55,22 @@ A basic write to the SCA
 Write a sequence of values to the SCA
 * Service type: RPC call
 * Service name: SCA_SEQUENCE_WRITE
-* Parameters: A sequence of pairs of SCA command and data. The pairs are separated by semicolon, the command and data by 
+* Parameters: A sequence of pairs of SCA command and data. The pairs are separated by newline, the command and data by 
     comma: 
     ~~~
-    [command 0],[data 0];[command 1],[data 1]; ... 
+    "[command 0],[data 0]\n[command 1],[data 1]\n[etc.]" 
     ~~~
     For example:
     ~~~
-    10,11;20,21;30,31
+    "10,11\n20,21\n30,31"
     ~~~
 * Return: A sequence of SCA read return values corresponding to the commands from the input sequence:
     ~~~
-    [value 0];[value 1]; ...
+    "[value 0]\n[value 1]\n[etc.]"
     ~~~
     For example:
     ~~~
-    42;123;555
+    "42\n123\n555"
     ~~~
     If an SCA error occurred, the sequence of return values will go up to that point.
     If another type of error occurred (such as a formatting error), it will return a failure string.