Package xal.ca

Interface ChannelTimeRecord

All Superinterfaces:

ChannelRecord, ChannelStatusRecord

All Known Implementing Classes:

ChannelTimeRecordImpl, Epics7ChannelTimeRecord

public interface ChannelTimeRecord
extends ChannelStatusRecord

ChannelTimeRecord is a wrapper for channel data that has a value along with status information and a time stamp.

Author:

tap

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Timestamp	getTimestamp()	Get the timestamp.
double	timeStampInSeconds()	Get the time stamp in seconds since the Java epoch epoch.

Methods inherited from interface xal.ca.ChannelRecord

applyTransform, arrayValue, byteArray, byteValue, byteValueAt, doubleArray, doubleValue, doubleValueAt, floatArray, floatValue, floatValueAt, getCount, getType, intArray, intValue, intValueAt, longArray, longValue, longValueAt, shortArray, shortValue, shortValueAt, stringArray, stringValue, stringValueAt, toString

Methods inherited from interface xal.ca.ChannelStatusRecord

severity, status

Method Details

getTimestamp

Timestamp getTimestamp()

Get the timestamp.

Returns:

the timestamp

timeStampInSeconds

double timeStampInSeconds()

Get the time stamp in seconds since the Java epoch epoch. Some precision is lost as we move away from the epoch since the double precision number cannot hold the full native precision.

Returns:

The time stamp in seconds as a double.