Release History

1.7.0 (2022-08-04)

Added

  • ophyd.utils.epics_pvs._wait_for_value

  • ophyd.pv_positioner.PVPositionerDone

  • ophyd.pv_positioner.PVPositionerIsClose

  • ophyd.signal.InternalSignal

  • ophyd.signal.EpicsSignalNoValidation

  • ophyd.sim.FakeEpicsPathSignal

Changes

  • Made Component a generic user-defined type Component[T], with the type parameter bound to OphydObject to allow for static analysis of Device classes and instantiated devices.

  • Set subscriptions only once per class to improve performance.

  • Reduced log level from INFO to DEBUG in ophyd.ophydobj, ophyd.signal, and ophyd.sim.

  • Deprecated ophyd.utils.epics_pv.set_and_wait(obj, val) in favor of obj.set(val).wait(). This ensures that the same logic is used to determine if the signal is set as requested when used in a plan (via yield from bps.abs_set(...) or yield from bps.mv(...)) as from within ophyd methods.

  • Deprecated DetectorBase.dispatch in favor of newly added DetectorBase.generate_datum.

Fixes

  • Resolved some warnings from tests in preparation for treating warnings as errors.

  • Removed test for removal of TRACE logging.

  • Tweaked DEBUG log output in ophyd.device.BlueskyInterface.stage() and ophyd.device.BlueskyInterface.unstage().

  • Fixed tutorial typos.

  • Wait for ophyd.sim.NullStatus to mark itself as finished.

  • Convert ophyd.areadetector.paths.EpicsPathSignal.set_and_wait_path(..., val, ...) input to string.

  • ophyd.areadetector.plugins.HDF5Plugin_V21.xml_file_name must be a string.

1.6.4 (2022-04-08)

Changes

  • Improve ValueError from Signal.describe() to report signal name.

  • Added timeout arguments to FakeEpicsSignal.

Fixes

  • Fix versioneer compatability with python 3.11.

1.6.3 (2021-10-11)

Changes

  • In case of a LimitError being raised by the mv() command, the error message will now specify which setpoint PV triggered the limit condition.

  • Added tests which check Ophyd objects against the new Bluesky protocols.

  • The requirement for the inflection package has been removed from general requirements and moved to requirements-dev.txt.

1.6.2 (2021-08-31)

Fixes

  • Prevent set_and_wait from accepting a failed read when tolerances are set.

  • Added missing _metadata_keys and kwargs to FakeEpicsSignal, to better mimick EpicsSignal.

  • EpicsMotor will now restore the SET field back to 0 if an error occurs during set_current_position.

  • SequenceId PV on EigerDetectorCam is no longer read-only.

  • Fixed error message text in NDDerivedSignal.inverse.

Changes

  • Improved error message in Signal.put when unsupported kwargs are passed in.

  • Added script to generate boilerplate code for new AD Detector and Cam classes.

  • Added Detector and Cam classes for ADPICam driver for Princeton Instruments detectors.

  • Added UnitConversionDerivedSignal class, which can automatically apply unit conversions when reading and writing.

  • Added documentation for init_pos parameter on SoftPositioner.

  • SignalRO now also directly exposed by top level ophyd package.

  • Added classes to support areaDetector Kafka plugin.

  • Added create_directory support to FileStorePluginBase, to control the directory creation behavior of AreaDetectors.

  • Improved documentation around ScalarCH, EpicsScalar and EpicsMotor.

  • Added classes to support ADUVC driver.

1.6.1 (2021-02-26)

Fixes

  • Added a missing name argument to AreaDetector documentation.

  • Correctly propagate changes to the default connection_timeout setting via set_defaults, instead of always defaulting to 1 second.

Changes

  • Expanded documentation for Fly-able Interface to include code examples and updated MockFlyer sim.

  • Changed update_rate and auto_count_update_rate signals in EpicsScalar to default to Kind.omitted instead of Kind.config.

1.6.0 (2020-12-16)

Fixes

  • The write_timeout specified for an EpicsSignalBase is respected by its set() method unless overridden with set(..., timeout=TIMEOUT).

  • Area Detector PVs related to array shape have been given an order compatible with the numpy array index ordering of the array itself.

  • Thread the keyword EpicsSignal.get(..., use_monitor=True) down to the control system. This setting was previously supported but support was removed (years ago). We now view its removal as a mistake.

  • When area detector takes a series of images and num_capture is set to 0, this is now interpreted to mean “however many images the detector is configured to acquire” rather than “0 images”.

  • Fixed EigerDetectorCam’s photon_energy component’s PV suffix spelling.

  • Motor limits HLS and LLS used EpicsSignal when they should be using EpicsSignalRO.

  • EpicsSignal with string=True kwarg now correctly results in dtype='string' from .describe() method

Added

  • Support for Emergent Vision detectors.

  • The class-wide default for write_timeout is now configurable via EpicsSignalBase.set_defaults(). It was previously only configurable on a per-instance basis at initialization time, with the class-wide default hard-coded to None. The class-wide default is still None, unchanged from the previous release.

  • The class-wide default for auto_monitor is now configurable via EpicsSignalBase.set_defaults(). It was previously configurable on a per-instance basis at initialization time. The default value, False, has not changed.

Changes

  • The logging has been tweaked to be less noisy, particularly at import time. Some log messages have been moved from 'ophyd.object' to 'ophyd.control_layer', and the level of messages emitted to 'ophyd.control_layer' have been reduced from INFO to DEBUG. Some log messages have been removed entirely.

  • The method EpicsSignalBase.set_default_timeout() has been renamed to EpicsSignalBase.set_defaults() because it has been extended to include more than timeouts, as described above. The old name is still supported but issues a warning that it may be removed in the future.

  • Use auto-monitoring in more places in EpicsMotor. This should drastically speed up motor.read_configuration().

  • Update ophyd.sim.MockFlyer to use its name as its stream name.

  • Capture the create_directory signal on Area Detector FilePlugin as configuration.

Deprecations

  • EpicsSignalBase previously ignored unrecognized keyword arguments passed to its method get() or get_setpoint(). Now, any unrecognized keyword arguments will issue a DeprecationWarning. In the future they will issue a UserWarning and eventually an error.

1.5.4 (2020-10-19)

Changes

  • NDFile PVs implemented in FileBase instead of FilePlugin.

Fixes

  • Various doc fixes and improvements.

Added

  • OPHYD_SILENCE_VALUE_WARNING environment variable to silence .value warning.

1.5.3 (2020-08-26)

Changes

  • Add a default value for ScalerCH.select_channels such that calling it without arguments selects all named channels.

  • Change a particularly verbose ophyd logger from INFO-level to DEBUG-level.

Fixes

  • Critical bug in EpicsMotor limits set low to high and high to low.

  • For area detector cameras, add num_images to the set of components recorded as configuration by default.

1.5.2 (2020-07-07)

Changes

  • Default logging behavior will now be to print all log messages with level warning and higher.

  • ophyd.mca.SoftDXPTrigger now inherits from Device instead of BlueskyInterface. This is to satisfy the requirement that classes which have Components must also inherit Device.

  • It was formerly the case that destroy() was always called at teardown—either manually by the user or automatically using one of Python mechanisms for running cleanup during garbage collection or process teardown. Now, automatic teardown only involves internal weakref finalizers and it does not call destroy. The method is now only a user-facing hook for manually invoking those finalizers. It should not be used as an extension point for adding more code to be run at teardown; rather, additional finalizers should be set up in __init__ and invoked in destroy. See https://github.com/bluesky/ophyd/pull/865 for an example. This changed is in accordance with best practices recommended by the Python weakref documentation.

Internals

  • Fixed logging imports in debugging documentation.

  • Reset the internal _status in SingleTrigger to None when the trigger is completed.

1.5.1 (2020-06-12)

Fixes

  • Updated required version of pyepics to 3.4.2, to ensure the included fix to libca shutdown is available, preventing crashes on Python shutdown.

  • The objects in ophyd.sim use threads to simulate delays due to movement, instead of conditionally attempting to integrate with the asyncio event loop.

  • Set attributes before invoking super in NDDerivedSignal to ensure describe method returns correct results.

  • Improved documentation of BlueskyInterface.

  • Fixed intended ordering of areadetector plugins provided by component_names.

Internals

  • Formatting fixes in Sphinx documentation.

  • Added epics-pypdb to test requirements.

  • Added Python 3.8 builds to continuous integration.

  • Added log message when an exception occurs in status callback threads.

1.5.0 (2020-05-01)

The API for Status objects has been reworked to be closer to its generic analog in the standard library, concurrent.futures.Future. Most of the changes are extenions, but there are some deprecations and some minor backward-incompatible changes.

Added

  • Status objects can store an exception giving information about why the underlying action failed. This is set by set_exception() and can be retrieved by exception(). The method set_finished() may be used to mark successful completion, in which case exception() returns None.

  • Status objects have a new wait() method, which blocks until the Status finishes (in success or failure) or until an optional timeout is reached, whichever happens first. If it finishes in success, the method returns None; if failure, the exception captured by set_exception() is raised.

Deprecated

  • Status objects take the parameters done and success. These are deprecated and, if set to anything but None (the default) issue a warning suggesting a better approach.

  • The method _finished() is deprecated in favor of set_finished() (for success) and set_exception() (for failure). There are no plans to remove _finished(), given its wide use, but it may begin to issue warnings in future releases.

Backward-incompatible Changes

  • The function ophyd.status.wait() formerly raised on TimeoutError or RuntimeError. It can now raise any Exception.

  • The attributes timeout and settle_time have become read-only properties.

Additionally, some unrelated bug fixes are included in this release.

Fixed

  • Fix a regression that broke describe() on some simulated hardware in ophyd.sim in certain circumstances.

  • Handle teardown more gracefully, avoiding error messages at shutdown time that arose in certain installations.

v1.4.1 (2020-04-07)

Features

  • Update HLM and LLM limits automatically on ophyd.EpicsMotor when they are changed externally.

  • Added more descriptive error message when attempting to run setup under unsupported Python versions.

API Changes

  • Added methods ophyd.EpicsMotor.set_lim() and ophyd.EpicsMotor.get_lim() to set and get limits on motors.

  • Added documentation for logging API.

Fixes

  • Improved documentation of ophyd.PVPositioner.

  • Corrected path semantics behavior when interacting with an areadetector running on a different OS.

Internals

  • Refactored code to satisfy Flake8 requirements. Maximum line length set to 115 characters.

  • Improved scope of log messages emitted by OphydObj.

v1.4.0 (2020-03-13)

Features

  • Version ophyd classes to support IOCs changing over time. This is currently implemented for AreaDetector plugins (releases 1-9 to 3-4).

  • Added ophyd.NDDerivedSignal, which supplies a reshaped version of an input array signal.

  • Added ophyd.Component.subscriptions() decorator to set up default subscriptions on a component.

  • Added ophyd.device.create_device_from_components() to aid dynamic device generation.

  • Added ophyd.device.required_for_connection() decorator to mark the Components that must be connected for the overall Device to be considered connected.

  • Added a hook to be called on all ophyd object creation via the OphydObj.add_instantiation_callback() class method along with the register_instances_keyed_on_name() and register_instance_in_weakset() helper functions.

  • Added OphydObj.dotted_name property to get the full attribute name of a child component.

  • Added the properties read_access, write_access, metadata to the base signal class ophyd.Signal.

  • Added metadata subscriptions for ophyd.Signal.

  • Added OphydObj.destroy() method to all ophyd objects.

  • Added support for ADLambda X-Spectrum Lambda 750K camera.

  • Improved error message “Another set() call is still in progress” to include the name of the device that raised the error.

  • Allowed ophyd.FormattedComponent strings to be written like {prefix}{_ch_name} as well as the previously-supported and more verbose {self.prefix}{self._ch_name}.

  • Made timeouts more configurable, including separately configurable connection timeout, write timeout, and read timeout. New method ophyd.EpicsSignal.set_default_timeout sets class-wide defaults. Timeouts can also be specified per-instance and in a specific action.

API Changes

  • Dropped support for Python 3.5.

  • The optional dependency pyepics, if installed, must be above version 3.4.0 to be used.

  • If you are holding a reference to a pyepics.pv.PV that is shared with ophyd and all ophyd objects that use that PV are torn down, all callbacks on the PV will be cleared and the channel will be torn down. If this is a problem for you, please create a bug report.

  • Removed ophyd.control_layer. The “control layer” used to access EPICS can be controlled via ophyd.set_cl().

  • ophyd.DynamicDeviceComponent is now an ophyd.Component sub-class

  • Changed argument name in OphydObj.subscribe() from cb to callback.

  • Removed ophyd.tests.conftest.FakeEpicsPV, ophyd.tests.conftest.FakeEpicsWaveForm, and associated helper functions. If you need this class, please vendor it from a previous version of ophyd - or please consider moving to make_fake_device or caproto-based simulation IOCs.

  • Removed ophyd.tests.AssertTools and use standard pytest idioms throughout the test suite.

  • Overhauled objects in ophyd.sim to inherit from ophyd.Signal and ophyd.Device and thus behave more like true hardware-connected devices.

  • The ophyd.StatusBase.done attribute was formerly settable, but never intended to be. It should only be set by calling ophyd.StatusBase._finished(). Now, if it is set from False to True is warns, and if it is set from True to False (which does not make sense) it raises.

Fixes

  • Skip erroneous limits check on EpicsMotor.set_current_position.

  • Handle bug in dispatcher to allow functools.partial objects to be registered as callbacks.

  • Before shaping area detector image data, truncate any extra elements that exceed the declares waveform length.

  • Fix clipping in status progress updates.

  • Address numpy pickle CVE.

Internals

  • Switch from ophyd.Device using meta-classes to using __init__subclass__. There are now no meta-classes used in ophyd!

  • Completely overhauled how we connect to PVs at initialization and tear them down on destruction of the ophyd objects.

  • Completely overhauled how PV meta-data is handled.

  • Completely overhauled the dispatcher thread mechanism.

  • Removed our backport of enum, as it is available on the minimum Python 3.6.

  • Refactor simulated text object SynAxisNoHints to be more realistic.

v1.3.3 (2019-05-02)

Features

  • Provide way to select all channels of ScalarCH.

Bug Fixes

  • Ensure that ScalarCH channels with empty names are not selected.

v1.3.2 (2019-03-11)

Bug Fixes

  • Update usage of collections module for Python 3.7.

  • Improve documentation of “hints”.

  • Fix ophyd.log.logger which had erroneous name 'bluesky' instead of 'ophyd'.

  • Fix typos in definition of area detector devices wherein BrukerDetector and PerkinElmerDetector had cam components from cameras of different brands than their own.

  • In area detector file plugins, do not touch ‘Capture’ PV if image mode is ‘Single’. Doing so has no effect, and it generates an error (that should be a warning) from area detector noting that it has no effect.

  • Fix a typo in ScalerCH definition of its name_map.

v1.3.1 (2019-01-03)

Features

  • Add FakeEpicsSignalWithRBV, which is to FakeEpicsSignal as EpicsSignalWithRBV is to EpicsSignal.

  • Add enum-spoofing to FakeEpicsSignal.

  • A default handler is added to the 'ophyd' logger at import time. A new convenience function, set_handler(), addresses common cases such as directing the log output to a file.

Bug Fixes

  • Always interpret simulated motor positions as floats, even if set to an integer position.

  • Accept numpy arrays in set_and_wait.

  • Log errors with set_and_wait at the ERROR level rather than the (often silenced) DEBUG level.

  • Check limits on SoftPositioner.

  • Produce consistent Datum documents in the old and new asset registry code paths in SynSignalWithRegistry.

  • Fix some missing imports in ophyd.areadetector.plugins.

  • The verification that the image plugin has received an array of nonzero size was implemented in a way that it would never be tripped.

  • Accept any tuple of the right length in put().

  • AttributeSignal now runs subscriptions when it processes an update.

  • Fix some bugs in FakeEpicsSignal.

v1.3.0 (2018-09-05)

Features

Bug Fixes

  • describe correctly reports the type and shape of the data.

  • make Device.component_names an tuple (instead of a list) as it should not be mutable.

  • Fix issue with grand-children not correctly reporting as being in read_attrs or configuration_attrs.

v1.2.0 (2018-06-06)

Features

  • On each Signal or Device, attach a Python logger attribute named log with a logger name scoped by module name and the ophyd name of the parent Device.

  • Signals and Devices now accept labels argument, a set of labels — presumed but not (yet) forced to be strings — which the user can use for grouping and displaying available hardware. The labels are accessible via a new attribute _ophyd_labels_, so name to facilitate duck-typing across libraries. For example, the bluesky IPython “magics” use this to identify objects for the purpose of displaying them in labeled groups.

  • Added tolerated_alarm attribute to EpicsMotors, a hook to increase alarm tolerance for mis-configured motors.

  • Ophyd is now fully tested to work against the experimental control layer, caproto, in addition to pyepics. The control layer can also be set to ‘dummy’ for testing without EPICS. This is configurable via the OPHYD_CONTROL_LAYER environment variable.

  • Added a kind attribute to each Signal and Device, settable interactively or via an argument at initiation time, which controls whether its parent Device will include it in read(), read_configuration(), and/or hints.fields. This behavior was previously controlled by read_attrs, configuration_attrs, _default_read_attrs, and _default_configuration_attrs on parent Devices. Those can still be used for setting the desired state, but the source of truth is now stored locally on each child Signal/Device, and read_attrs/configuration_attrs has been re-implemented as a convenience API. Documentation is forthcoming; until then we refer to you the narrative-style tests of this feature. Also see three breaking changes, listed in a subsequent section of these release notes. The existing implementation contained buggy and surprising behavior, and addressing that made breaking something unavoidable.

  • Added make_fake_device factory function that makes a Device out of FakeEpicsSignal based on a Device that has real signals.

  • Add sum_all component to QuadEM.

  • Add a set method to the ROI plugin.

  • Validate that a Device or Signal’s name is a string, and raise helpfully if it is not.

Bug Fixes

  • Allow DerivedSignal to accept a string name as its target component so that it can be used inside Device, where it must defer grabbing its target to initialization time.

  • Signals that start with underscores are now not renamed by namedtuple. This causes issues when the .get method tries to fill the DeviceTuple.

  • Add new ad_root (“area detector root”) to remove the accidental assumption that ADBase is the root ancestor Device of all its subclasses.

  • ad_group generates Components that are lazy by default.

  • Catch various edge cases related to the data fed to progress bars from status objects.

Deprecations

  • This release simplifies the flow of information out of ophyd. Fortunately, this major change can be made smoothly. In this transitional release, both old and new modes of operation are supported. Old configurations should continue to work, unchanged. Nonetheless, users are encouraged to update their configurations promptly to take advantage of the better design. The old mode of operation will cease to be supported in a future release.

    How to upgrade your configuration: Simply remove the reg=... parameter everywhere it occurs in area-detector-related configuration.

    Background: In the original design, bluesky’s RunEngine collected some information (readings for Event and EventDescriptor documents) and dispatched it out to consumers, while ophyd itself pushed other information (Datum and Resource documents) directly into a database. There are two problems with this design.

    1. Consumers subscribed to bluesky only see partial information. For example, to access the filepaths to externally-stored data, they have to perform a separate database lookup. There are no guarantees about synchronization: the consumer may receive references to objects that do not exist in the database yet.

    2. Ophyd is responsible inserting information into a database, which means connection information needs to be associated with a Device. This seems misplaced.

    In the new design, ophyd merely caches Datum and Resource documents and leaves it up to bluesky’s RunEngine to ask for them and dispatch them out to any consumers (such as that database that ophyd used to push to directly). Thus, all information flows through bluesky and to consumers in a guaranteed order. Ophyd does not need to know about database configuration.

    Ophyd’s area detector “filestore” integration classes in ophyd.areadetector.filestore_mixins and ophyd.sim still accept a Registry via their optional reg parameter. If they receive one, they will assume that they are supposed to operate the old way: inserting documents directly into the Registry. If the user is running bluesky v1.3.0, bluesky will collect these same documents and dispatch them out to consumers also.

  • The module ophyd.control_layer has been deprecated in favor of a top-level cl object.

Breaking Changes

  • The ‘hints’ feature was an experimental feature in previous releases of ophyd and is now being incorporated in a first-class way. To ensure internal consistency, the hints attribute of any Signal or Device is no longer directly settable. Instead of

    camera.hints = {'fields': [camera.stats1.total.name,
                           camera.stats2.total.name]}

    do

    from ophyd import Kind

camera.stats1.total.kind = Kind.hinted
camera.stats2.total.kind = Kind.hinted

    or, as a convenient shortcut

    camera.stats1.total.kind = 'hinted'
camera.stats2.total.kind = 'hinted'

  • The read_attrs / configuration_attrs lists will now contain all of the components touched when walking the Device tree. This also means that setting these lists may not always round trip: they may contain extra elements in addition to those explicitly set.

  • When adding “grandchildren” via read_attrs / configuration_attrs, we no longer allow generation skipping and forcibly set up the state of all of the devices along the way to be consistent. Inconsistency arguably should never have been possible in the first place.

  • A Device’s __repr__ no longer includes read_attrs and configuration_attrs (because they are now so lengthy). This means that passing a Device’s __repr__ to eval() does not necessarily reconstruct a Device in exactly the same state.

v1.1.0 (2017-02-20)

Features

  • Add a new run keyword, which defaults to True, which can be used to keep SubscriptionStatus objects from running callbacks immediately.

  • Add an unsuscribe_all() method to OphydObj.

  • Support timestamps and subscriptions in the simulated motor SynAxis and related classes.

  • Extend DynamicDeviceComponent to accept optional default_read_attrs and default_configuration_attrs arguments, which it will assign as class attributes on the class it dynamically creates.

  • Systematically add default_read_attrs=(...) to every DDC on every Area Detector plugin. Now, for example, adding 'centroid' to the read attributes of a StatsPlugin instance also effectively adds 'centroid_x' and 'centroid_y', which is presumably the desired result.

  • On ScalerCH, omit any channels whose name is '' from the read attributes by default.

  • Add new random_state keyword to relevant simulated devices so that their randomness can be made deterministic for testing purposes.

  • Restore namespace-scraping utilities instances_from_namespace() and ducks_from_namespace() which had been moved in pyolog during previous refactor.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix race condition in set_and_wait().

  • Fix a bug in aforementioned namespace-scraping utilities.

  • Do not use deprecated API (signal_names, now called component_names) internally.

v1.0.0 (2017-11-17)

This tag marks an important release for ophyd, signifying the conclusion of the early development phase. From this point on, we intend that this project will be co-developed between multiple facilities. The 1.x series is planned to be a long-term-support release.

Breaking Changes

  • To access the human-friendly summary of a Device’s layout, use device.summary() instead of print(device). The verbosity of the summary was overwhelming when it appeared in error messages and logs, so it was moved from Device.__str__ this new method. Now Device.__str__ gives the same result as Device.__repr__, as it did before v0.7.0.

  • Add (empty) hints to ~ophyd.sim.SynSignalWithRegistry.

Bug Fixes

  • Initiate SynSignal with a function that returns None if no func parameter is provided.

  • Make ophyd importable without pyepics and libca.

v0.8.0 (2017-11-01)

Breaking Changes

  • Make the name keyword to Device a required, keyword-only argument. This ensures that the names that appear in the read dictionary are always human-readable.

  • When a PseudoPositioner is set with only a subset of its parameters specified, fill in the unspecified values with the current target position, not the current actual position.

Deprecations

  • The signal_names attribute of devices has been renamed component_names for clarity because it may include a mixture of Signals and Devices – any Components. The old name now issues a warning when accessed, and it may be removed in a future release of ophyd.

  • Status objects’ new add_callback method and callbacks attribute should be preferred over the finished_cb property, which only supports one callback and now warns if set or accessed.

Features

  • Add ophyd.sim module with various synthetic ‘hardware’ for testing and teaching.

  • The ‘children’ of a PseudoPositioner can now be simultaneously used as independent axes in a bluesky plan.

  • Add SubscriptionStatus, which reports done when a Python function of the subscription returns True.

  • It is possible to register more than one callback function to be called on completion of a Status object (i.e. when a Device is finished triggering or moving).

  • Status objects support __and__, such that status1 & status2 return a new status object that completes when both status1 and status2 are complete.

  • Do not require a prefix argument to Device. It is not applicable in cases of synthetic ‘hardware’.

  • Add MotorBundle for bundling EpicsMotors and automatically composing a useful combined hint.

  • Add hints to PseudoSingle, PseudoPositioner, and SoftPositioner.

  • Make it possible to plug in a different “control layer” — i.e. an interface to EPICS other than pyepics. This is experimental and may be changed in the future in a way that is not backward-compatible.

Bug Fixes

  • Avoid a race condition when timing out during a settle time.

Internal Changes

  • Reduce set_and_wait log messages to DEBUG level.

  • Refactor OphydObj callbacks to make the logic easier to follow. This change is fully backward-compatible.

v0.7.0 (2017-09-06)

Breaking Changes

  • The module ophyd.commands, a grab bag of convenient tools, has been entirely removed. The functionality is available in other ways:

    • The functions mov() and movr() (“move” and “move relative”) have been replaced by IPython magics, provided in bluesky v0.10.0:

      %mov eta 3 temp 273
%movr eta 1 temp -5

    • The function wh_pos() for surveying current positioners has also been supplanted by an IPython magic packaged with bluesky: %wa (short for “where all”, an abbreviation borrowed from SPEC).

      %wa

    • The fucntionality of set_pos()—setting zero—is available via a device method set_current_pos(), if applicable.

    • The functionality of set_lm() for altering limits has been removed. It is not something users should generally change, and now must be done directly via EPICS or pyepics.

    • The logging-related functionality, including all functions named log_* and also get_all_positioners() have been moved to pyOlog.

    • The function setup_ophyd was merely a shim to ophyd.setup_ophyd(), which is still available as a top-level import.

  • When recursing through complex devices, read() in no longer called as part of read_configuration(). For complex devices, the same child device may be used in both read_attrs and read_configuration. Putting the read values into the configuration is generically not correct. For example, the mean_value of a stats plugin for Area Detector should be in the read() but not in the result of read_configuration(). At the bottom, Signals fall back to read() for their read_configuration implementation.

  • The area detector ‘EnableCallbacks’ signal is set using its integer representation instead of its enum string. The string representation was changed on the NDPluginBase.template file in upstream Area Detector. The int value is stable (we hope).

  • Low-level changes related to integration between ophyd’s area detector code and databroker/filestore:

    • Ophyd’s optional dependency on filestore, which is now a deprecated package, has been replaced by an optional dependency on databroker. In area detector classes, the keyword argument and attribute fs has been changed to reg, short for “registry”.

    • The FileStoreBulkWrite mixin classes have been removed. Now that the Registry is generating the datum UIDs the ‘stash, emit on read, and then insert on unstage’ is no longer possible. This means we will never let a datum_id which is not in a Registry out into the EventSources. This change is driven by the need to support column based backends from Assets.

    • The method generate_datum on area detector file plugins requires an additional argument, datum_kwargs.

Features

  • Many devices picked up a new hints property. Its goal is to highlight the most interesting or important fields—often a small subset of all the fields that are read—in support of automated visualization and processing. It does not affect what is read or recorded; nothing is permanently altered or lost if the hints are incorrect. The content of hints may be changed in future releases, as this feature is experimental. For now, hints is a dictionary with the key fields mapped to a list of field names. For movable devices, these fields are expected to represent the the independent axes of the device. For devices that are only readable, these fields represent the most interesting fields, i.e. the fields most likely to be desired in a table or plot.

  • The string representation of a device, accessible via str(...) or print(...), provides a human-readable summary of its attributes and fields. Example:

    In [5]: motor = EpicsMotor('XF:31IDA-OP{Tbl-Ax:X1}Mtr', name='motor')

In [6]: print(motor)
data keys (* hints)
-------------------
*motor
 motor_user_setpoint

read attrs
----------
user_readback        EpicsSignalRO       ('motor')
user_setpoint        EpicsSignal         ('motor_user_setpoint')

config keys
-----------
motor_acceleration
motor_motor_egu
motor_user_offset
motor_user_offset_dir
motor_velocity

configuration attrs
----------
motor_egu            EpicsSignal         ('motor_motor_egu')
velocity             EpicsSignal         ('motor_velocity')
acceleration         EpicsSignal         ('motor_acceleration')
user_offset          EpicsSignal         ('motor_user_offset')
user_offset_dir      EpicsSignal         ('motor_user_offset_dir')

Unused attrs
------------
offset_freeze_switch EpicsSignal         ('motor_offset_freeze_switch')
set_use_switch       EpicsSignal         ('motor_set_use_switch')
motor_is_moving      EpicsSignalRO       ('motor_motor_is_moving')
motor_done_move      EpicsSignalRO       ('motor_motor_done_move')
high_limit_switch    EpicsSignal         ('motor_high_limit_switch')
low_limit_switch     EpicsSignal         ('motor_low_limit_switch')
direction_of_travel  EpicsSignal         ('motor_direction_of_travel')
motor_stop           EpicsSignal         ('motor_motor_stop')
home_forward         EpicsSignal         ('motor_home_forward')
home_reverse         EpicsSignal         ('motor_home_reverse')

  • The Area Detector plugins formerly always enabled themselves during staging. Now, this behavior is configurable using new methods, enable_on_stage() and disable_on_stage(). After unstaging, devices are put into their original state, whether enabled or disabled. Additionally, there are methods to control blocking callbacks, ensure_blocking() and ensure_nonblocking(). We recommend using blocking callbacks always to ensure that file names do not get out of sync with acquisitions.

  • A device’s default read_attrs and configuration_attrs can be more succinctly specified via the class attributes _default_read_attrs and _default_configuration_attrs.

  • Some status objects add a new method named watch which support bluesky’s new progress bar feature.

  • The ScalerCH class has a new method, select_channels that coordinates several necessary steps of configuration in one convenient method.

Bug Fixes

  • The area detector plugin ports are validated after staging, giving the staging process the opportunity to put them into a valid state.

Maintenance

  • Ophyd’s automated tests are now included inside the Python package in the package ophyd.tests.

  • Ophyd has many fewer dependencies. It no longer requires:

    • boltons

    • doct

    • ipython

    • prettytable

    • pyOlog (This was previous optional; now it is not used at all.)

  • ophyd.AreaDetector.filestore_mixin.fs_root has been deprecated in favor of ophyd.AreaDetector.filestore_mixin.reg_root.

v0.6.1 (2017-05-22)

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v0.6.0 (2017-05-05)

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v0.5.0 (2017-01-27)

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v0.4.0 (2016-11-01)

Enhancements

  • Allow set_and_wait to have a timeout.

  • Allow a plugin to have no port name.

  • Ensure trailing slashes are included in file plugin filepaths to avoid common user mistake.

Breaking Changes

  • The bluesky interface now expects the stop method to accept an optional success argument.

v0.3.1 (2016-09-23)

Enhancements

  • Check alarm status of EpicsMotor to decide success/failure

  • Allow stage_sigs to be attribute names to enable lazy-loading.

  • Add target_initial_position parameter to PseudoSingle.

Fixes

  • Add size-link to ROI plugin.

  • Fix QuadEM port name uniqueness.

  • Rename read attribute on MCA, which was shadowing read method, to force_read. Add check to Device to avoid repeating this mistake in the future.

v0.3.0 (2016-07-25)

Breaking Changes

  • Area detector now checks that all plugins in the pipeline of anything that will be collected as part of read. The configuration of all of the plugins in the processing chain will now be included in descriptor document. Tooling to inspect the asyn pipelines is now part of ADBase and PluginBase.

New Features

  • Add pivot kwarg to MonitorFlyierMixin to optionally provide a single event as a time series rather than a time series of many events.

  • Add SignalPositionerMixin to turn a Signal into a positioner.

  • Add classes for PCO edge

Bug Fixes

  • Be more careful about thread safety around pyepics

v0.2.3 (2016-05-05)

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v0.2.2 (2016-03-14)

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v0.2.1 (2016-02-23)

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v0.2.0 (2016-02-10)

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