Bulk read of archive values.

The action reads the values of several historical values. These are specified by the row given in the parameter archIdent. For each item in the given row, the action internally generates archive data read requests and also waits for read data. By generating all read requests at once (next request doesn't wait until previous request is done) the action provides the increase of read speed by 50% to 200% than reading of the same number of values by the GETARCHARR action. This speed up depends on the system load and the number of columns in the row. The speed is higher when the system load is higher and the action reads more items.

Archive data read request contains reference to data by means of:

1. the object of the Historical value type (or item of structured historical value) - in this case, the object that is to be read is uniquely determined.
2. other system object (I/O tag, user variable, ...) or item of local variable of the Record type - in this case, the system automatically searches for the historical value that archives the object determined by the request (e.g. if the request contains the reference to I/O tag that has been archived, the system automatically redirects the request to the historical value). If such historical value doesn't exist, the action will be terminated and return the _ERR_ARCHIV_NOT_RUNNING error.
    

The parameter archIdent can be defined by one of the following ways:

1. A row of local variable of  the „typed ALIAS“ type
   Example:
   ALIAS (structure definition) _lAT
   SET _lAT AS SV.Struct
   GETARCHROW _lAT[4] , ...
   
   Individual read requests are ALWAYS addressed to items in given column of the structure SV.Struct (even if the column contains items of Object type).
    
2. A row of object of the Structured variable type
   Example:
   GETARCHROW SV.Struct[4] , ...
   
   Request addressing is the same as described in the article 1.
    
3. A row of local variable of the Record type
   Example:
   RECORD (structure definition) _lRec
   REDIM _lRec[10]
   
   SET _lRec[4]^Item1 AS Sec
   SET _lRec[4]^Item2 AS SysTime
   SET _lRec[4]^Item3 AS M.MeranyBod
   .....
   
   GETARCHROW _lRec[4], ...
   
   All the columns of the structure definition must be of the Object type. Individual read requests are to be addressed to the objects the row items refer to.
   If any item does not refer to object, the action is to be terminated and returns the ERR_NO_ASSIGNED_ALIAS error.
    
4. A row of structured historical value
   Example:
   GETARCHROW H.Struct[4], ...
   
   Individual read requests are to be gradually addressed to all items in given row. The object H.Struct cannot be a one-column historical value.
    

The read result is stored in the local variable _locRecDstIdent. The result of every request is either one value or a sequence of values. Every sequence of values is arranged by time in ascending order and stored row by row in the respective column of the local variable _locRecDstIdent. The structure type of the structured variables archIdent and _locRecDstIdent must be the same (it ensures the same number of columns). The action automatically resizes the variable _locRecDstIdent to required number of rows (the number is given by the largest number of values in the read result).

The parameters timeFromIdent_TmA and timeToIdent_TmA specify the time interval for reading values.
The parameter stepIdent_Int defines the oversampling (in seconds) of read values. If it is equal to 0, reading is not to be oversampled. Therefore, if the value is differing from 0, the times of all values in the result structure is the same and every column contains read values up to the last row. If the value is 0, the size of the result structure is given by the maximum number of values read by one request. Therefore, not all columns will contain values read from the archive up to the last row.
If the parameter timeToIdent_TmA is higher than actual time and the parameter stepIdent_Int is different from zero, oversampled values with future timestamps will be invalid.

The value of the parameter archivInstance_Int defines the instance of archive which executes the request. If the parameter is not defined (or the value is 0), the active instance of archive will execute the request.

The variable statusIdent_Int indicates the success of reading of the action. If this variable acquires the value _ERR_NO_DATA(22), it means that all archives, which were used when reading, do not contain any data. If at least one of the archives contains data, the action returns _ERR_NO_ERR(0).

GETARCH* actions - example.