Jython Script to read Internal Database using javadocs

[tyler.bennett]

Thanks to all who contributed in this thread.
The clues herein led me to develop a solution (unsupported as it may be) for reading all properties for existing devices (Ignition v8.1). Posted here:

How to read properties of existing device connection - Example Code

I had often been disappointed that not all device connection properties for existing devices were easily available through supported scripting (system.device.listDevices()) . I recently had cause to develop a methodology to create/update/remove devices, UDTs (definitions/instances), tags and tag alarms based on an Excel workbook. Without scripted access to device connection properties it was difficult to determine whether a device required an update so I dug in and finally found a way to retriev…