PyDM

[jacquelinegarrahan]

PyDM integration remains a challenge for NALMS widget development. Ideally, we'd like to make use of a pydm Kafka datasource for the surfacing of alarms. This effort depends on the development of entry point plugins referenced here: slaclab/pydm#720. Otherwise, it seems odd to house the kafka based datasource in the pydm repository. I've done this thus far (https://github.com/jacquelinegarrahan/pydm/tree/alarm-datasource).

Additional slots will need to be added for acknowledge indicators, bypass indicators, etc. etc. Alternatively, this could be parsed widget side, though I'm of the opinion that the data should be handled on the data source itself.