improve type change error messages

2020-05-19 10:03:02 -07:00
parent 2d075cbc1c
commit 027e590fba
3 changed files with 14 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ struct ServerMonitorControl : public server::MonitorControlOp
        Guard G(mon->lock);

        if(val && mon->type && mon->type.get()!=Value::Helper::desc(val))
-            throw std::logic_error("Type change not allowed in post()");
+            throw std::logic_error("Type change not allowed in post().  Recommend pvxs::Value::cloneEmpty()");

        if((mon->queue.size() < mon->limit) || force || !val) {
            mon->queue.push_back(std::move(val));