# Memorized attribute

Intended audience: advanced developers, Programming language: c++

It is possible to ask Tango to store in its database the last written value for attribute of the SCALAR data format and obviously only for READ_WRITE or READ_WITH_WRITE attribute. This is fully automatic. During device startup phase, for all device memorized attributes, the value written in the database is fetched and applied. A write_attribute call can be generated to apply the memorized value to the attribute or only the attribute set point can be initialised. The following piece of code shows how the source code should be written to set an attribute as memorized and to initialise only the attribute set point.

    1 void DevTestClass::attribute_factory(vector<Tango::Attr *> &att_list)
    2  {
    3      ...
    4      att_list.push_back(new String_attrAttr());
    5      att_list.back()->set_memorized();
    6      att_list.back()->set_memorized_init(false);
    7      ...
    8  }

Line 4 : The attribute to be memorized is created and inserted in the attribute vector.

Line 5 : The set_memorized() method of the attribute base class is called to define the attribute as memorized.

Line 6 : The set_memorized_init() method is called with the parameter false to define that only the set point should be initialsied.