Xtc Library How-Tos

// %sample:intro:cpp%
// Assume some totally made-up data acquisition callback framework named DAQFramework
// Developers of the psdaq package are welcome to come in and change this toy example
// to match the real DAQ API.

HSDXtcWriter hsdwriter()

DAQFramework.registerHandler("configure", hsdwriter.setup)
DAQFramework.registerHandler("runstart", std::bind(hsdwriter.openXtcFile, filename))
// Assume we get a "readout" message per event
DAQFramework.registerHandler("readout", hsdwriter.writeFeature)
DAQFramework.registerHandler("runend", hsdwriter.closeXtcFile)

//%endsample%

// %sample:codesample1:cpp%

#include "xtcdata/xtc/ShapesData.hh"
#include "xtcdata/xtc/DescData.hh"
#include "xtcdata/xtc/Dgram.hh"
#include "xtcdata/xtc/TypeId.hh"
#include "xtcdata/xtc/XtcIterator.hh"
#include "xtcdata/xtc/VarDef.hh"

using namespace XtcData;

#define BUFSIZE 0x4000000

HSDXtcWriter::HSDXtcWriter()
{
	// Define the shape/contours of each record in
    // our feature extraction data set
	class FexDef:public VarDef
	{
		public:
		  enum index
		  {
			  floatFex,
		      arrayFex,
		      intFex
	      };

		FexDef()
   		{
       		NameVec.push_back({"floatFex",Name::DOUBLE});
			NameVec.push_back({"arrayFex",Name::FLOAT,2});
			NameVec.push_back({"intFex",Name::INT64});
		}
	};

	// Define some instance variables.
	FILE *this->xtcoutfile;
	// An Xtc::Dgram to store metadata about the output
	Dgram& this->metadataDgram;
	std::vector<NameIndex>& this->namesVec;
	this->FexDef = new FexDef();

	// Now initialize various things
	_initializeMetadataDgram();
}

void HSDXtcWriter::_initializeMetadataDgram()
{
	TypeId tid(TypeId::Parent, 0);
	void* configbuf = malloc(BUFSIZE);

    this->metadataDgram = *(Dgram*)configbuf;
	this->metadataDgram.xtc.contains = tid;
    this->metadataDgram.xtc.damage = 0;
	// Check if Xtc::Xtc auto-alloc will take care of
    // updating this extent as we go?
    this->metadataDgram.xtc.extent = sizeof(Xtc);
}

void HSDXtcWriter::_addNames(Xtc& parent, std::vector<NameIndex>& namesVec)
{
	// Instantiate and Alg to define metadata for a feature extraction ("fex") algorithm
	Alg hsdFexAlg("fex",4,5,6);
	// "Insert" a Names structure into the config Dgram's Xtc container.
	Names& this->fexNames = *new(parent) Names("xpphsd", hsdFexAlg, "hsd","detnum1234")
	// And now we populate the structure with the definition of the FexDex shapes
	this->fexNames.add(parent, this->FexDef);
    namesVec.push_back(NameIndex(this->fexNames));
}

void HSDXtcWriter::setup()
{
	// Add a Names structure to the configuration Dgram
	_addNames(this->metadataDgram.xtc, this->namesVec);
}

void HSDXtcWriter::openXtcFile(xtcoutfilename)
{
	this->xtcoutfile = fopen(xtcoutfilename, "w");
}

void HSDXtcWriter::writeFeature()
{

	// Need some makebelieve code here to show how this callback method unpacks data from DAQ
	// to cram into these Xtc structures...

	// Talk to Chris. Is this event by event? Would you want to destruct this CreateData after each event?
 	CreateData fex(parent, NamesVec, nameId);

	// set_value() lets you set scalar values in the data record.
    // The 'floatFex' ID is defined in our custom FexDef class.
	fex.set_value(FexDef::floatFex, (double)41.0);

	// Use allocate() to set up data that's better represented as vectors or matrices.
    // The 'arrayFex' ID is defined in our custom FexDef class.
	unsigned shape[MaxRank] = {2,3}; //MaxRank is an Xtc library global upper limit on data complexity.
    Array<float> arrayT = fex.allocate<float>(FexDef::arrayFex,shape);
    for(unsigned i=0; i<shape[0]; i++){
        for (unsigned j=0; j<shape[1]; j++) {
            arrayT(i,j) = 142.0+i*shape[1]+j;
        }
    };
	
	// Another scalar value setter.
    // The 'intFex' ID is defined in our custom FexDef class.
	fex.set_value(FexDef::intFex, (int64_t) 42);

}

void HSDXtcWriter::closeXtcFile()
{
	fclose(this->xtcoutfile);
}

// ...
// %endsample%

// %sample:codesample2:cpp%
	cout<<"Hi world?"
// %endsample%