@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ def get_manager(self, db_name='', prop=''):
185185 return dp
186186
187187 @Cached (expire = 60. )
188- def get_archivers (self , from_db = True ):
188+ def get_subscribers (self , from_db = True ):
189189 """
190190 If not got from_db, the manager may limit the list available
191191 """
@@ -198,6 +198,10 @@ def get_archivers(self, from_db = True):
198198 raise Exception ('%s Manager not running' % self .manager )
199199
200200 return [d for d in p if d .strip ()]
201+
202+ def get_archivers (self , * args , ** kwargs ):
203+ """ alias to get_subscribers """
204+ return self .get_subscribers (* args ,** kwargs )
201205
202206 @Cached (expire = 5. )
203207 def get_archiver_attributes (self , archiver , from_db = False , full = False ):
@@ -257,7 +261,10 @@ def get_archiver_errors(self,archiver):
257261 return dict ((a ,e ) for a ,e in zip (al ,er ) if e )
258262
259263 def get_archiver_load (self ,archiver ,use_freq = True ):
260-
264+ """
265+ if use_freq=True, returns attribute record frequency
266+ if false, returns attribute list size
267+ """
261268 if use_freq :
262269 return fn .tango .read_attribute (archiver + '/attributerecordfreq' )
263270 else :
@@ -350,24 +357,30 @@ def get_attributes_by_table(self,table='',as_id=False):
350357 " where att_conf_data_type_id = %s" % (w ,i ))) for t ,i in types )
351358
352359 @Cached (depth = 10 ,expire = 60. )
353- def get_archived_attributes (self ,search = '' ):
360+ def get_subscribed_attributes (self ,search = '' ):
354361 """
355- It gets attributes currently assigned to archiver and updates
362+ It gets attributes currently assigned to subscribers and updates
356363 internal attribute/archiver index.
357364
358365 DONT USE Manager.AttributeSearch, it is limited to 1024 attrs!
359366 """
360367 #print('get_archived_attributes(%s)'%str(search))
361368 attrs = []
362369 [self .get_archiver_attributes (d ,from_db = True )
363- for d in self .get_archivers ()]
370+ for d in self .get_subscribers ()]
364371 for d ,dattrs in self .dedicated .items ():
365372 for a in dattrs :
366373 self .attributes [a ].archiver = d
367374 if not search or fn .clsearch (search ,a ):
368375 attrs .append (a )
369376 return attrs
370377
378+ def get_archived_attributes (self , * args , ** kwargs ):
379+ """
380+ alias to get_subscribed_attributes, to be overloaded in subclasses
381+ """
382+ return self .get_subscribed_attributes (* args , ** kwargs )
383+
371384 def get_attribute_ID (self ,attr ):
372385 # returns only 1 ID
373386 return self .get_attributes_IDs (attr ,as_dict = 0 )[0 ][1 ]
@@ -605,7 +618,7 @@ def add_attribute(self,attribute,archiver=None,period=0,
605618 """
606619 set _event arguments to -1 to ignore them and not modify the database
607620
608-
621+ code_event will be set to True if no other event is setup
609622 """
610623 attribute = parse_tango_model (attribute ,fqdn = True ).fullname
611624 archiver = archiver or self .get_next_archiver (
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