pub fn parse_value_for(
object_type: ObjectType,
property: PropertyIdentifier,
index: Option<u32>,
text: &str,
) -> Result<PropertyValue, String>Expand description
Parse a value typed for property of an object of object_type, at
index when the write names one, knowing the property’s datatype:
- an enumeration by name, in kebab case, UPPER_SNAKE or any case
(
offnormal,HIGH_LIMIT), or by number; a binary object’s state asactive/inactive, with or without the object’s text after it (active (On)); - a named bit string by its set bits (
in-alarm,fault,in-alarm | fault), as 0/1 digits first bit first, ornonefor no bit set; - a plain number for the value of an analog or integer object (its Present_Value, Relinquish_Default, a Priority_Array slot, COV_Increment, High_Limit, Low_Limit and Deadband) as that property’s datatype: REAL for the analog objects, Double for a Large Analog Value, INTEGER or Unsigned for the integer objects;
- a BACnetDateTime as
2026-10-19 07:00(a date alone leaves the time unspecified), and a timestamp asseq 42, a time, or a date and time; - a Weekly_Schedule day, an Exception_Schedule special event, a
Date_List calendar entry or a Recipient_List destination as JSON, or
the whole list of them for a write of the whole property, in the
shapes of the Python bindings’ typed constructors (
docs/CLI.md, “Constructed values as JSON”); - anything else, and the explicit forms (
null,true, a quoted string,enumerated:N,date:,time:,object:,bits(0101)), asparse_valuereads them.
A mistyped name is refused with the valid names, or the nearest few when there are many.