uk.ac.starlink.fits

Class ColFitsTableWriter

java.lang.Object

uk.ac.starlink.table.StreamStarTableWriter

uk.ac.starlink.fits.AbstractFitsTableWriter

uk.ac.starlink.fits.ColFitsTableWriter

All Implemented Interfaces:

MultiStarTableWriter, StarTableWriter

Deprecated.

Use uk.ac.starlink.votable.UnifiedFitsTableWriter instead

@Deprecated
public class ColFitsTableWriter
extends AbstractFitsTableWriter

Handles writing of a StarTable in a column-oriented FITS binary table format. The table data is stored in a BINTABLE extension which has a single row; each cell in this row contains the data for an entire column of the represented table.

This rather specialised format may provide good performance for certain operations on very large, especially very wide, tables. Although it is FITS and can therefore be used in principle for data interchange, in practice most non-STIL processors are unlikely to be able to do much useful with it.

Since:

21 Jun 2006

Author:

Mark Taylor

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ColFitsTableWriter() Deprecated. Default constructor.
ColFitsTableWriter(String name, WideFits wide) Deprecated. allows some configuration options but not others; use no-arg constructor and configuration methods instead

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected FitsTableSerializer	createSerializer(StarTable table) Deprecated. Provides a suitable serializer for a given table.
boolean	looksLikeFile(String location) Deprecated. Indicates whether the destination is of a familiar form for this kind of writer.

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.starlink.fits.AbstractFitsTableWriter

getAllowSignedByte, getAllowZeroLengthString, getConfig, getCurrentDate, getFormatName, getMetadataCards, getMimeType, getPadCharacter, getWide, getWriteDate, setAllowSignedByte, setAllowZeroLengthString, setFormatName, setPadCharacter, setWide, setWriteDate, writePrimaryHDU, writeStarTable, writeStarTables, writeStarTables, writeTableHDU

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.starlink.table.StreamStarTableWriter

writeStarTable, writeStarTable

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface uk.ac.starlink.table.StarTableWriter

writeStarTable

Constructor Detail

ColFitsTableWriter

public ColFitsTableWriter()

Deprecated.

Default constructor.

ColFitsTableWriter

@Deprecated
public ColFitsTableWriter(String name,
                                      WideFits wide)

Deprecated. allows some configuration options but not others; use no-arg constructor and configuration methods instead

Deprecated custom constructor.

Method Detail

looksLikeFile

public boolean looksLikeFile(String location)

Deprecated.

Description copied from interface: StarTableWriter

Indicates whether the destination is of a familiar form for this kind of writer. This may be used to guess what kind of format a table should be written in. Implementations should return true for values of location which look like the normal form for their output format, for instance one with the usual file extension.

Parameters:

location - the location name (probably filename)

Returns:

true iff it looks like a file this writer would normally write

createSerializer

protected FitsTableSerializer createSerializer(StarTable table)
                                        throws IOException

Deprecated.

Description copied from class: AbstractFitsTableWriter

Provides a suitable serializer for a given table. Note this should throw an IOException if it can be determined that the submitted table cannot be written by this writer, for instance if it has too many columns.

Specified by:

createSerializer in class AbstractFitsTableWriter

Parameters:

table - table to serialize

Returns:

FITS serializer

Throws:

IOException - if the table can't be written