uk.ac.starlink.topcat

Class TopcatCodec1

java.lang.Object

uk.ac.starlink.topcat.TopcatCodec1

All Implemented Interfaces:

TopcatCodec

public class TopcatCodec1
extends Object
implements TopcatCodec

Original TopcatCodec implementation. This works but serializes all row subsets as bit masks and all columns as literal values. Thus a session round-tripped using this codec gives you back all the table and subset values that you had in the first place, but the expressions are lost, and additional file space is used to serialize these synthetic columns and subsets.

An additional issue is that there is a limit of 64 subsets.

Since:

16 Jul 2010

Author:

Mark Taylor

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
TopcatCodec1()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
TopcatModel	decode(uk.ac.starlink.table.StarTable table, String location, ControlWindow controlWindow) Takes a table which has been previously serialized by calling this codec's encode method, and for which the isEncoded method returns true, and turns it into a TopcatModel.
uk.ac.starlink.table.StarTable	encode(TopcatModel tcModel) Turns a TopcatModel into a StarTable, ready for serialization.
boolean	isCodecUtype(String utype) Indicates whether a given utype is a marker for metadata private to the serialization scheme used by this class.
boolean	isEncoded(uk.ac.starlink.table.StarTable table) Indicates whether a given table is a candidate for this codec's decode method.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

TopcatCodec1

public TopcatCodec1()

Method Detail

encode

public uk.ac.starlink.table.StarTable encode(TopcatModel tcModel)

Description copied from interface: TopcatCodec

Turns a TopcatModel into a StarTable, ready for serialization.

Specified by:

encode in interface TopcatCodec

Parameters:

tcModel - model

Returns:

table

isEncoded

public boolean isEncoded(uk.ac.starlink.table.StarTable table)

Description copied from interface: TopcatCodec

Indicates whether a given table is a candidate for this codec's decode method. It should in general return true for a table that has been returned from this object's encode method (possibly following a table write/read cycle) and false for other tables.

Specified by:

isEncoded in interface TopcatCodec

Parameters:

table - data+metadata table

Returns:

true iff it looks like the table was written by this codec and can be decoded by it

decode

public TopcatModel decode(uk.ac.starlink.table.StarTable table,
                          String location,
                          ControlWindow controlWindow)

Description copied from interface: TopcatCodec

Takes a table which has been previously serialized by calling this codec's encode method, and for which the isEncoded method returns true, and turns it into a TopcatModel. If decoding fails, null is returned.

If used with a ControlWindow that users may be interacting with, this method should be called from the AWT event dispatch thread. This method may (for instance during testing) be called with a null value for the controlWindow parameter, but the resulting TopcatModel may not be suitable for all kinds of user interactions.

Specified by:

decode in interface TopcatCodec

Parameters:

table - encoded table

location - table location string

controlWindow - control window, or null if necessary

Returns:

topcat model, or null

isCodecUtype

public boolean isCodecUtype(String utype)

Indicates whether a given utype is a marker for metadata private to the serialization scheme used by this class.

Parameters:

utype - info utype

Returns:

true iff utype is for private codec purposes