[Clas12_software] simple bankdef dictionary

[David Heddle]

OK, I'll check it out


On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Gagik Gavalian <gavalian at jlab.org> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> We do have a class like that in the clas-io package. I thought all IO
> related things should be in that one jar.
> We can either migrate your classes, if they have more functionality, or
> add functionality to the ones we have.
>
> Gagik
>
> On May 20, 2014, at 10:58 AM, David Heddle <david.heddle at cnu.edu> wrote:
>
> As an alternative to the evio dictionary (which may or may no be present)
> I built a little library (called  BankDictionary in svn--at least for a
> little while) that creates a dictionary from the bankdef xml files. It
> works off a jar file of the clas12 xml files. You can make that jar
> yourself or get it from the clasJlib checkout.
>
> The main program in the BankDictionary class serves as an example of how
> to use it:
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> *   // main program for testing    public static void main(String arg[]) {
>         BankDictionary bd = new BankDictionary();  //create a dictionary
>     try {            bd.buildDictionary(); //build the dictionary        }
> catch (IOException e) {            e.printStackTrace();         }        *
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> *//use the dictionary*
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> *        DictionaryEntry entry = bd.getEntry(400, 5);
> System.out.println("Tag: " + entry.getTag());
> System.out.println("Bank name: " + entry.getBankName());
> System.out.println("Bank info: " + entry.getBankInfo());
> System.out.println("Num: " + entry.getNum());
> System.out.println("Column name: " + entry.getColumnName());
> System.out.println("Data type: " +entry.getType());
> System.out.println("Column info: " + entry.getColumnInfo());*
>     }
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> output:
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> Tag: 400
> Bank name: BST
> Bank info: Simulated BST Hit Information
> Num: 5
> Column name: lx_avg
> Data type: float64
> Column info: Average local x position
>
> So you build the dictionary and then look up entries by tag and num. The
> returned DictionaryEntry has getters as shown in the print statements.
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> I assume the evio dictionary is also made from the bankdef xml's, so
> consistency should be more or less guaranteed.
>
> cheers,
> dph
> --
> David P. Heddle, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Physics
> Christopher Newport University
> Newport News, VA 23606
>
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David P. Heddle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Physics
Christopher Newport University
Newport News, VA 23606

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