Nut upsdev - Sep 2021 - Looking for examples of var TYPE descriptions

On Wed, 1 Sep 2021, Glen Bakeman via Nut-upsdev wrote:
> I'm currently trying to understand the implementation of get_type in
netget.c,
> specifically how more complex variable types (such as ENUMs or RANGEs) are 
> represented by text. On my own UPS, it doesn't seem to have anything
more
> complicated than a number or string (or UNKNOWN).
> 
> It looks like it would be theoretically possible for a var to show as enum
OR
> range AND string OR number, is that true?
Have a look at section 4.2.4 GET at
http://rogerprice.org/NUT/draft-rprice-ups-management-protocol-05.html#name-get-2

Roger

Thank you for the info, Roger. I was going off of the developer guide 
<https://networkupstools.org/docs/developer-guide.chunked/ar01s09.html> 
at nut.org which seems pretty close to the one you linked to, at least 
for the section I'm in right now. I don't think I quite have the answer 
I'm looking for.

To give a little more background, I'm working on a program that, among 
other things, will parse the variable type(s) that are passed to it from 
a NUT server. I'd like to understand just how exotic/complicated a 
variable type can get. If that means ENUMs are just enum and nothing 
else, great - although from my understanding in the master branch of the 
nut-ups code, it seems possible that variables can mix and match when 
the server responds to such a query. I'm hoping someone can maybe 
provide a few examples of what the most complex variables look like, 
since I don't seem to have those on my end.

Glen

On 9/2/2021 2:50 AM, Roger Price wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2021, Glen Bakeman via Nut-upsdev wrote:
>
>> I'm currently trying to understand the implementation of get_type
in
>> netget.c, specifically how more complex variable types (such as ENUMs 
>> or RANGEs) are represented by text. On my own UPS, it doesn't seem
to
>> have anything more complicated than a number or string (or UNKNOWN).
>>
>> It looks like it would be theoretically possible for a var to show as 
>> enum OR range AND string OR number, is that true?
>
> Have a look at section 4.2.4 GET at
>
http://rogerprice.org/NUT/draft-rprice-ups-management-protocol-05.html#name-get-2
>
>
> Roger
>
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