a container for data buffers used to fill a measurement set More...

#include <DataLoadingBuf.h>

Public Member Functions
	DataLoadingBuf ()
	create the container More...

	~DataLoadingBuf ()
	delete the container More...

void	resizeForNspect (casacore::Int i)
	resize our arrays of containers to hold data for wide band data and a given number of narrow band spectral windows. More...

casacore::Int	nchanForSpWin (casacore::Int i)
	return the number of channels that can be stored in a given window. More...

casacore::Cube< casacore::Bool > &	flagsForSpWin (casacore::Int winid)
	return a reference to the flags casacore::Cube for a given window. More...

casacore::Matrix < casacore::Complex > &	visForSpWin (casacore::Int winid)
	return a reference to the vis casacore::Matrix for a given window More...

casacore::Vector < casacore::Float > &	weight ()
	return a reference to the weight vector More...

casacore::Vector < casacore::Float > &	sigma ()
	return a reference to the sigma vector More...

void	resizeForSpWin (casacore::Int winid, casacore::Int nchan)
	resize the containers for a given window to the given number of channels More...

void	resizeForNpol (casacore::Int npol)
	resize the containers for a given number of polarization correlations More...

Private Member Functions
	DataLoadingBuf (DataLoadingBuf &)

Private Attributes
casacore::Block < casacore::Matrix < casacore::Complex > * >	vislist

casacore::Block < casacore::Cube < casacore::Bool > * >	flgslist

casacore::Vector< casacore::Float >	wt

casacore::Vector< casacore::Float >	rms

Detailed Description

a container for data buffers used to fill a measurement set

Intended use:

Public interface

Review Status

Date Reviewed:: yyyy/mm/dd

Etymology

class holds buffers used to load data into a Measurment Set

Motivation

Miriad data support multiple spectral windows for a given correllator setup. Furthermore, a dataset can contain multiple setups. This class attempts to avoid having to repeatedly create a buffer inside a loading loop.

Synopsis

This class allows one to create reusable buffers for each of the spectral windows that can be passed to an casacore::ArrayColumn's put() function. This avoids the cost of recreating the buffers inside a loading loop that cycles through the input Miriad windows. The buffers can be resized if necessary if the Miriad correllator setup changes.

This class stores for each window a casacore::Matrix<casacore::Complex> to store the visibility data and a casacore::Cube<casacore::Bool> to hold the flags. Normally, you can have all wide-band windows share a single buffer (since they are all the same size, namely having 1 channel). The buffers are access via their (zero-base) window index, starting with the narrow band windows. A window index greater than or equal to the number of narrow band windows (set via resizeForNspec()) is assumed to refer a wide-band window and the last buffer is returned.

If the size of a buffer needs to be changed (e.g. because the correllator setup changed such that the number of channels in a window subsequently changed), it is most convenient to do the resizing via resizeForSpWin().

Example

To set up the buffers, you need to know how many windows you have, and the number of channels in each window.

casacore::Int nspec = 6
casacore::Int *nchan = { 512, 256, 256, 512, 256, 256 };
DataLoadingBuf buf();
buf.resizeForNspect(nspec+1)  // to hold both narrow and wide band data
for(casacore::Int i=0; i < nspec; i++)
buf.resizeForSpWin(i, nchan[i]);
buf.resizeForSpWin(nspec, 1);

Now to use the buffers...

for(casacore::Int i=0; i < 2*nspec; i++) {
// get data-loading buffers
casacore::Matrix<casacore::Complex> &vis = buf.visForSpWin(i);
casacore::Cube<casacore::Bool> &flgs = buf.flagsForSpWin(i);
// load in the data
casacore::Int n = (i < nspec) ? nchan[i] : 1;
for(casacore::Int j=0; j < n; j++) {
vis(0,j) = casacore::Complex(corr[2*(j+offset)], 
-corr[2*(j+offset)+1]);
flgs(0,j,1) = (flags[j+offset] == 0);
}
// load it into casacore::MS column
msc->data().put(row, vis);
msc->flagCategory().put(row, flgs);
}

To Do

the most important functions in this class are inlined even though they are a tad long (4-6 lines). This is because it is expected that they are called once within a loop. Under this assumption, the benefit probably out-weighs the cost. If this assumption changes, this code should probably be moved out of line.

Definition at line 127 of file DataLoadingBuf.h.