Rover Disable Bulk Request

The rover program has a feature enabled by default called bulk_request. This feature allows queries to the rover to be much faster than requesting each piece of data one at a time.

There are very few reasons to disable this option. One reason to disable it would be if you need to debug errors or if you need to attempt to compare data using bulk requests and non-bulk requests to make sure they are the same.

Enabling

Enabled by default, so no change is needed.

Disabling

All you have to do is add "bulk_requeset": false at the same level that "type": "rover" is contained at in base.json.

Let’s assume you had a config like this:

{
  "type": "request",
  "source": "default",
  "fragment": 2,
  "unique": 30,
  "database_config": {
    "databases": [
    ]
  },
  "request": [
    {
      "type": "modbus",
      "io": "config/rover_serial.json",
      "devices": {
        "1": {
          "type": "rover"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

You can simply change it to:

{
  "type": "request",
  "source": "default",
  "fragment": 2,
  "unique": 30,
  "database_config": {
    "databases": [
    ]
  },
  "request": [
    {
      "type": "modbus",
      "io": "config/rover_serial.json",
      "devices": {
        "1": {
          "type": "rover",
          "bulk_request": false
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}