Project

General

Profile

Idea #24195

Support Python as a Light Weight FE Framework

Added by Beau Harrison 5 months ago. Updated about 2 months ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Front-end Request
Start date:
03/17/2020
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Duration:

Description

There is interest in providing devices via Python. A Python FE framework would be ideal. This would allow engineers and physicists to directly link their analysis to devices.

Should this kind of work be done in an IOC?

History

#1 Updated by Beau Harrison 5 months ago

  • Description updated (diff)

#2 Updated by Richard Neswold 3 months ago

(This should probably be moved to a front-end project.)

Just a few notes about supporting this:

  • Our current Python library uses TCP sockets to reach acnetd. We either need to open up service support on our TCP interface or create a Python library that uses the local, UDP interface.
  • The scripts would have to run on registered ACNET nodes (see previous point). We currently don't encourage transient front-ends. If a FE is operational, we expect its devices to be accessible.

#3 Updated by Beau Harrison 3 months ago

  • Category set to Front-end Request
  • Project changed from DPM to Front-end Group
  • Tracker changed from Feature to Idea

Move to the FE group.

#4 Updated by Richard Neswold about 2 months ago

Some more specs/requirements:

  • We provide a Python base class, Driver, that would be the interface between the framework and the driver. If a driver required interfacing with C or C++ code, we wouldn't be providing that lower-level interface.
  • It would be based off the current acsys Python module, so it would be using the asyncio framework.

That being said, we just had a meeting and came to the conclusion that this might not be the path we should head down. We need to see how complete the Python IOC library is, for instance.

Also available in: Atom PDF