read

Cauldron.ktl.read(service, keyword, *args, **kwargs)

Perform a ktl_read() operation for this keyword.

The default behavior is to do a blocking read and return the ascii representation of the keyword value. If binary is set to True, only the binary representation will be returned; If both is set to True, both representations will be returned in a (binary, ascii) tuple. If wait is set to False, the KTL read operation will be performed in a background thread, and any resulting updates would trigger any callbacks registered via callback(). If a timeout is specified (in seconds), and wait is set to True, read() will raise a TimeoutException if the timeout expires before a response is received.

This is an abstract method. Backends must implement this method