epics-containers/builder2ibek

builder2ibek

Conversion tool for DLS XML builder IOC instances to ibek ioc.yaml

This is where you should write a short paragraph that describes what your module does, how it does it, and why people should use it.

Source	https://github.com/epics-containers/builder2ibek
PyPI	pip install builder2ibek
Releases	https://github.com/epics-containers/builder2ibek/releases

This is where you should put some images or code snippets that illustrate some relevant examples. If it is a library then you might put some introductory code here:

from builder2ibek import __version__

print(f"Hello builder2ibek {__version__}")

Or if it is a commandline tool then you might put some example commands here:

python -m builder2ibek --version

builder2ibek's Issues

Get this project ready for the tutorials

This needs:

• clean translation of the lakeshore340 builder.py to support YAML
• update the schema version that is put at the top of the generated support yaml
• fill out the stub page in the how-to section on this tool

Add filters to the builder2ibek file command

Because generic IOCs contain support for only one type if device it is frequently necessary to split up old IOCs when translating to ioc.yaml from builder XML.

For this purpose it would be helpful if this tool could assist.

In discussion with @JamesOHeaDLS we decided that it would be useful to have CLI args to filter the set of support modules that get copied into the YAML.

Also it would be useful to split an IOC that connects to multiple pmacs for example into multiple IOCs. This is more challenging to filter but could be done with field values somehow. Some extra thought required on this (or continue to do it manually)