Differences between indigo.Dict and python dict

OK, maybe a silly question. how do I list all the key/items in an indigo Dict? such as pluginProps.

tried .keys() and .items() and they are blank...

[jay (support)]

Hmmm...

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>>> d = indigo.Dict()
>>> d["a"] = 1
>>> d["b"] = 2
>>> d.keys()
[u'a', u'b']
>>> d.values()
[1, 2]
>>> d.items()
[(u'a', 1), (u'b', 2)]


and:

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>>> self.pluginPrefs
<indigo.Dict object at 0x10dfd2668>
>>> print(self.pluginPrefs)
Prefs : (dict)
     bottomLabel :  (string)
     showDebugInfo : false (bool)
     showThreadDebugInfo : false (bool)
     topLabel :  (string)
>>> self.pluginPrefs.keys()
[u'bottomLabel', u'showDebugInfo', u'showThreadDebugInfo', u'topLabel']
>>> self.pluginPrefs.values()
[u'', False, False, u'']
>>> self.pluginPrefs.items()
[(u'bottomLabel', u''), (u'showDebugInfo', False), (u'showThreadDebugInfo', False), (u'topLabel', u'')]


Is it possible that the plugin prefs you're looking for are just empty?

So the weirdness is I'm using EasyDaq plugin, heavily modified for my Hayward pool controller.

it should have a ton of pluginProps (channels, etc), but looks like they end up (or maybe start?) in globalProps. would not make sense because the EasyDAQ.py module is all over the pluginProps...

am I missing something between globalProps and pluginProps?

thx

pluginPrefs and pluginProps are different things....

[matt (support)]

Every plugin has its own pluginProps, so if you are executing this from a different plugin than the EasyDAQ plugin or from a script then you won't get the same pluginProps that EasyDAQ has. If that is what you want to access then you can use:

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easydaqProps = dev.globalProps["com.perceptiveautomation.indigoplugin.easydaq-usb-relay-cards"]

ahhh. So i'm debugging my plugin using pycharm remote.

I want to look at the pluginProps of the plugin i'm debugging...but can't use the debug console since its connected to pydev debugger...and can't use the indigo scripting shell because it not in same scope as plugin. not sure there's any console way to look at the plugin.pluginProps. thoughts?

[jay (support)]

Put a breakpoint somewhere in your plugin, trip the breakpoint, then inspect it in PyCharm...

[jay (support)]

Example: in the NOAA Weather plugin, I set a breakpoint in deviceStartComm method, then used the expression evaluator to cast device.pluginProps to a dict for easy viewing:

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Anywhere you have a device instance (or can get one), you can set a breakpoint and inspect the pluginProps as above.

Yup. Did figure that out. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't going crazy...