capabilities

Name

capabilities -- Get Provider Capabilities Dict

Synopsis

proc ::providerName::capabilities {} { ... }

DESCRIPTION

Not all data source providers are created equal. This command is expected to return a dict that describes the data source's capabilities. The keys to this dict are capability names. The values generally are booleans that indicate whether that capability is supported.

CAPABILITIES

At present the following capabilities are defined:

canPause

If true the provider implements the pause and resume procs and they do what they are advertised to do.

runsHaveTitles

If true the provider will honor the title parameter passed to the begin command.

runsHaveNumbers

If true the provider will honer the runNumber parameter passed to the begin command.