Driver should determine whether a property is supported before trying to access it.

[MarkRivers]

Different camera models support different properties. For example, the Orca Fire does not support READOUTSPEED, so the driver prints this error message:

Trigger Polarity: 0FAILED: (DCAMERR)0x80000825 Invalid Property! @ dcamprop_setvalue() : IDPROP:READOUTSPEED, VALUE:2
FAILED: (DCAMERR)0x80000825 Invalid Property! @ dcamprop_getvalue() : IDPROP:READOUTSPEED

The driver should be improved to first determine if a property is supported before trying to access it.

[marcomontevechi1]

dcamdev_getcapability probably helps us with that.
I'm experimenting with it and how to use it.

Maybe run once through all properties during driver initialization and disable all the non-supported records?
Or maybe run once every time the property is required and simply do nothing?

I'm more tempted by the first option since it seems like it's easier for the user to realize that record is disabled, but I still feel like there should be a way of expliciting which property is available and which is not.

Ideally in my view it would be even best to simply not create the records at all, but I have no idea how hard it is to create records dynamically at runtime...

[MarkRivers]

Note that the ADGenICam driver actually takes care of this logic for you. Although the Hamamatsu cameras are not really GenICam, it might make sense to derive from that driver. Then you just need to implement the logic for feature access as is currently done for ADVimba, ADAravis, ADSpinnaker, and ADPylon. The code needs to implement these functions:

virtual bool isImplemented(void) = 0;
virtual bool isAvailable(void) = 0;
virtual bool isReadable(void) = 0;
virtual bool isWritable(void) = 0;

[marcomontevechi1]

About GenICam, I understand there is a script that creates the records for you, and after running that script and generating the records then it's possible to run the IOC. Is this right?

If yes, is it conceivable to create an IOC that creates the records already at initialization time? I have never seen any IOC that does that, but it's not the first time that I come across such a need.