Catch zero-length PVs

[kasemir]

vtype.pv should throw exception for zero-length PV name requests because they might crash the CA gateway, http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2017/msg00714.php

[kasemir]

vtype.pv no longer passes zero-length PV names on to JCA.

Found that the EPICS PV Tree would request empty PV when no PV name is entered. More tools requesting empty PVs will now be caught because of vtype.pv update.

[anjohnson]

The underlying caj client library should be catching empty PV names itself and not passing them on, but evidently it doesn't. The libCa implementation returns ECA_BADSTR from ca_create_channel() when handed an empty PV name, so C-based clients can't cause this problem.

[kasemir]

Agree that CAJ should also catch empty PV names, for example

diff -r 4e82abf3d65b src/com/cosylab/epics/caj/CAJChannel.java
--- a/src/com/cosylab/epics/caj/CAJChannel.java Mon Jun 29 21:01:06 2015 +0200
+++ b/src/com/cosylab/epics/caj/CAJChannel.java Fri Apr 28 09:22:53 2017 -0400
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@
    protected CAJChannel(CAJContext context, int channelID, String name,
            ConnectionListener listener, short priority) throws CAException
    {
+       if (name == null  ||  name.isEmpty())
+           throw new CAException("Empty channel name");
        this.context = context;
        this.channelID = channelID;
        this.name = name;

Contacted Matej.