B4R Question SOLVED Sd.position seems not to work.

[tigrot]

Hi everybody,
I have an app updating a small random access file. It worked for months, but after I compiled again with last version of B4R and updated Arduino package, it appends the record instead of updating it.
Position value is correct and file is opened readwrite.
Thanks in Advance for hints.
Mauro

 

[Erel]

Can you create a small project that reproduces it?

 

[tigrot]

Here it is, along with resulting file. Seems that reading works with position while write doesn't.
It's a mega 2560 arduino.
B4R vesion is 3.90
rSD is 1.21
SD arduino 1.2.4

 

[tigrot]

A single record should be repetedly updated, but updates are simply appended. Thank you for support.

 

[tigrot]

#include <SPI.h>
#include <SD.h>

const int chipSelect = 10;

void setup() {
  // Open serial communications and wait for port to open:
  Serial.begin(115200);
  while (!Serial) {
    ; // wait for serial port to connect. Needed for native USB port only
  }


  Serial.print("Initializing SD card...");

  // see if the card is present and can be initialized:
  if (!SD.begin(chipSelect)) {
    Serial.println("Card failed, or not present");
    // don't do anything more:
    while (1);
  }
  Serial.println("card initialized.");
}

void loop() {
  // make a string for assembling the data to log:
  String dataString = "";

  // read three sensors and append to the string:
  for (int analogPin = 0; analogPin < 3; analogPin++) {
    int sensor = analogRead(analogPin);
    dataString += String(sensor);
    if (analogPin < 2) {
      dataString += ",";
    }
  }

  // open the file. note that only one file can be open at a time,
  // so you have to close this one before opening another.
  File dataFile = SD.open("datalog.txt", FILE_WRITE);

  // if the file is available, write to it:
  if (dataFile) {
    dataFile.seek(0);
    dataFile.println(dataString);
    dataFile.close();
    // print to the serial port too:
    Serial.println(dataString);
  }
  // if the file isn't open, pop up an error:
  else {
    Serial.println("error opening datalog.txt");
  }
}

I have tested this code too. I took from samples and modified to implement a seek function.
No way seek doesn't work, the issue is in Arduino's libraries, or at least FILE_WRITE implies O_APPEND?
I will investigate...

 

[tigrot]

Solved. Version of Arduino's SD library 1.2.4 has a definition for FILE_WRITE which includes O_APPEND.
This is the involved sd.h correction, with old line as well. Tested and working...

#define FILE_READ O_READ
//#define FILE_WRITE (O_READ | O_WRITE | O_CREAT | O_APPEND)
#define FILE_WRITE (O_READ | O_WRITE | O_CREAT)

I cannot believe that since 2019 nobody had the same issue!
Happy evening
Mauro