Okay, so I’ve got it narrowed down pretty simple here. When changing tags I’d love a return value to let me know if it worked, but editTag doesn’t return anything so:
try:
system.tag.editTag(tagPath='[default]This/doesnt/exist', overrides={"STATUS": {'Enabled':True}})
except:
print( "didn't work" )
The tag doesn’t exist yet I get no error, whereas changing the tag provider
try:
system.tag.editTag(tagPath='[deefoullt]Foo/bar/baz', overrides={"STATUS": {'Enabled':True}})
except:
print( "didn't work" )
will print “didn’t work”
I hate to go back and read each and every one to check for failure, that seems… not best practice way of handling things
Anyone else run into this?
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Did you find a solution for this? I am running into the same problem with a gateway scoped script that isn’t throwing any error when system.tag.read("") is trying to read a tag that doesn’t exist.
For example:
try:
tagValue = system.tag.read("Path/To/Machine%s/Tag" % (machineNo)).value
except:
print 'error'
doesn’t print ‘error’ if the parameter machineNo ends up creating an invalid tag path.
This is quite problematic considering it is gateway scoped and i want to handle errors nicely in a logger or an alert somehow.
Thanks for updating the thread! I know I never came to a conclusion at the time b/c I would have posted the answer, I just went on with my life lol
I’d like to think I could figure it out now, I had only been working in Ignition for a couple weeks when I made the OP
Cheers