Monitor a specific parameter value

[tukusejssirs]

It could be very useful if a user could easily configure fanuc-driver to collect one or more parameters (using rdparam) from machine.

It’d be nice if the user could:

• provide a name for this dynamic collector;
• provide a structure of the returned data:
  • this would be more useful when multiple parameters would be watched in a single collector;
  • order of parameter_id items and data_type items must match;
  • in format, one would use $1 to get the value of the first (0th) parameter value, $2 the second one, etc;
• when format is not defined:
  • for single parameter, fanuc-driver would return {$collector_name: $1};
  • for multiple parameters, fanuc-driver would return {$collector_name: [$1, $2, ...]};

For example, the configuration could look something like this:

# Single parameter: configuration
some_collector_name:
   parameter_id: 1234
   data_type: string  # 'string' | 'number' | 'boolean' and possibly some others

# Multiple parameters: configuration
another_collector_name:
   parameter_id:
      - 1234
      - 4321
   data_type:  # 'string' | 'number' | 'boolean' and possibly some others
      - string
      - number
   format: '{"some_name": $1, "another_name": $2}'

Example of the returned data:

// Single parameter
{
   some_collector_name: 'some_value'
}

// Multiple parameters
{
   another_collector_name: {
      some_name: 'some_value',
      another_name: 4543
   }
}

[MRIIOT]

Moving parameters after Macro and PMC data.