added standard err message to smartdashboard fails

Author: caengineers

Robot2018/src/org/usfirst/frc/team199/Robot2018/OI.java

@@ -35,11 +35,14 @@ public class OI {
 	private JoystickButton updatePIDConstantsButton;
 	private JoystickButton updateEncoderDPPButton;
 	public Joystick manipulator;
-
+	
 	public int getButton(String key, int def) {
 		if (!SmartDashboard.containsKey("Button/" + key)) {
-			SmartDashboard.putNumber("Button/" + key, def);
-		}
+			if (!SmartDashboard.putNumber("Button/" + key, def)) {
+				System.err.println("SmartDashboard Key" + "Button/" + key + "already taken by a different type");
+				return def;
+			}
+		}		
 		return (int) SmartDashboard.getNumber("Button/" + key, def);
 	}
 

Robot2018/src/org/usfirst/frc/team199/Robot2018/Robot.java

@@ -57,21 +57,27 @@ public class Robot extends TimedRobot {
 
 	public static double getConst(String key, double def) {
 		if (!SmartDashboard.containsKey("Const/" + key)) {
-			SmartDashboard.putNumber("Const/" + key, def);
+			if (!SmartDashboard.putNumber("Const/" + key, def)) {
+				System.err.println("SmartDashboard Key" + "Const/" + key + "already taken by a different type");
+				return def;
+			}
 		}
 		return SmartDashboard.getNumber("Const/" + key, def);
 	}
 
 	public static boolean getBool(String key, boolean def) {
 		if (!SmartDashboard.containsKey("Bool/" + key)) {
-			SmartDashboard.putBoolean("Bool/" + key, def);
+			if (!SmartDashboard.putBoolean("Bool/" + key, def)) {
+				System.err.println("SmartDashboard Key" + "Bool/" + key + "already taken by a different type");
+				return def;
+			}
 		}
 		return SmartDashboard.getBoolean("Bool/" + key, def);
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * This function is run when the robot is first started up and should be
-	 * used for any initialization code.
+	 * This function is run when the robot is first started up and should be used
+	 * for any initialization code.
 	 */
 	@Override
 	public void robotInit() {
@@ -110,9 +116,9 @@ public void robotInit() {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * This function is called once each time the robot enters Disabled mode.
-	 * You can use it to reset any subsystem information you want to clear when
-	 * the robot is disabled.
+	 * This function is called once each time the robot enters Disabled mode. You
+	 * can use it to reset any subsystem information you want to clear when the
+	 * robot is disabled.
 	 */
 	@Override
 	public void disabledInit() {
@@ -125,9 +131,9 @@ public void disabledPeriodic() {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * This function is called once during the start of autonomous in order to
-	 * grab values from SmartDashboard and the FMS and call the Autonomous
-	 * command with those values.
+	 * This function is called once during the start of autonomous in order to grab
+	 * values from SmartDashboard and the FMS and call the Autonomous command with
+	 * those values.
 	 */
 	@Override
 	public void autonomousInit() {

Robot2018/src/org/usfirst/frc/team199/Robot2018/RobotMap.java

@@ -173,7 +173,10 @@ public RobotMap() {
 	 */
 	public int getPort(String key, int def) {
 		if (!SmartDashboard.containsKey("Port/" + key)) {
-			SmartDashboard.putNumber("Port/" + key, def);
+			if (!SmartDashboard.putNumber("Port/" + key, def)) {
+				System.err.println("SmartDashboard Key" + "Port/" + key + "already taken by a different type");
+				return def;
+			}
 		}
 		return (int) SmartDashboard.getNumber("Port/" + key, def);
 	}