Release Notes 10510

artdaq Release Notes 1.05.10 (24-Mar-2014)

• Previous version’s Release Notes 1.05.09
• Downloads: http://oink.fnal.gov/distro/packages/artdaq
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External Package Changes

• none

artdaq version:“v1_05_10”

New features:

• Issue #5729: Improve the handling of fragment IDs in CommandableFragmentGenerator and children

Bug fixes:

• none

Operational changes:

• none

Known issues:

• The interface for setting and fetching fragment IDs from CommandableFragmentGenerator has changed, so classes that inherit from it may also need to change. Some usage notes, for reference:
  1. The CommandableFragmentGenerator constructor (and the constructors of all classes that inherit from it) check the input ParameterSet for several fragment-id-like parameters:
     1. It first checks for a parameter named “fragment_ids”, and if that exists, it stores the specified list of IDs in its internal list of fragment IDs.
     2. It next checks for a parameter named “fragment_id”.
        1. If that parameter exists, and the fragment_ids parameter was not specified, the specified fragment ID is stored as the first element in the internal list of fragment IDs.
        2. If that parameter exists, and the fragment_ids parameter was specified, then an exception is thrown. (Both parameters can not be specified in the same ParameterSet.)
     3. If neither “fragment_ids” nor “fragment_id” are specified in the ParameterSet, then the relevant child class should take care of filling the fragment_ids_ data member or over-ride the fragmentIDs() method to specify the fragment IDs that the particular FragmentGenerator instance generates.
  2. The fragment_ids() method returns the list of fragment IDs, as one would expect. This list could have one or more elements.
  3. The fragment_id() method is a convenience method that returns the single fragment ID in the case that only one fragment ID has been specified. If more than one fragment ID has been specified and this method is called, an exception is thrown.