The Operation Entry

An operation is a generic function. It does not have state stored in the database.dat file.

Line 1:operationName
Line 2:11
Line 3:responsibleDHS externalName activeClientOnly
Line 4:passiveOk remoteOk localOk inHutchOk closedHutchOk
Line 5:passiveOk remoteOk localOk inHutchOk closedHutchOk

• The responsibleDHS must be the name of a DHS defined in separate entry as discussed in The DHS definition.

• The externalName parameter can be used by the scripting engine to locate a specialized script for the operation. In the case of the scripting engine, it appends a .tcl to this parameter to locate the script for the operation.

• The activeClientOnly parameter can be a 0 to allow any client to request the operation or 1 to allow only the active client to request the operation.

• The two permissions lines (lines 4 and 5) are discussed in The Device Permission Bits.

Here is an example operation entry:

getLoopTip
11
camera getLoopTip 1
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0