Tuples::TupleColumn< ITEM > Class Template Reference

Helper class which allows to extend the functionality of Tuple with possibility to use your own representation of complex objects. More...

#include <GaudiAlg/Tuple.h>

Collaboration diagram for Tuples::TupleColumn< ITEM >:

Public Member Functions
	TupleColumn (std::string name, ITEM value)
const std::string &	name () const
	Return the column name. More...
const ITEM &	value () const
	Return the column value. More...

Private Attributes
std::string	m_name
	The column name. More...
ITEM	m_value
	The column value. More...

Detailed Description

template<class ITEM>
class Tuples::TupleColumn< ITEM >

Helper class which allows to extend the functionality of Tuple with possibility to use your own representation of complex objects.

It allows to extend the functionality of Tuples::Tuple and Tuples::TupleObj classes for your own needs, according to your own taste and without touching the classes at all. Neither the extension or the functionality through inheritance nor the extension through aggregation is used. One use the trick with template specialization of streamer operators.

Assuming one need to add into private code the N-Tuple representation of e.g. MyClass class

 // 0) Class which needs N-Tuple representation
 class MyClass
   {
      ...
     double field1() const ;
     double field2() const ;
     long   field3() const ;
     bool   field4() const ;
   };

 // 1) define specialization of operator with needed
 //    representation
 template <>
 inline Tuples::Tuple& operator<<
    ( Tuples::Tuple&                     tuple ,
     const Tuples::TupleColumn<MyClass>& item  )
  {
     // no action for invalid tuple
     if( !tuple.valid() ) { return tuple ;}
     tuple->column( item.name() + "field1" , item.value().field1() );
     tuple->column( item.name() + "field2" , item.value().field2() );
     tuple->column( item.name() + "field3" , item.value().field3() );
     tuple->column( item.name() + "field4" , item.value().field4() );
     return tuple ;
  }

// 3) use the operator to 'stream' objects of type MyClass ito
//  N-Tuple:

   Tuple tuple = ... ;
   MyClass a  = ...  ;
   tuple << Tuples::make_column( "A" , a ) ;

   // operators can be chained:
   MyClass a1 = ...  ;
   MyClass a2 = ...  ;
   MyClass a3 = ...  ;
   tuple << Tuples::make_column( "A1" , a1 )
         << Tuples::make_column( "A2" , a2 )
         << Tuples::make_column( "A3" , a3 ) ;

Alternatively one can use function Tuples::Column

//
MyClass a1 = ...  ;
MyClass a2 = ...  ;
MyClass a3 = ...  ;
tuple << Tuples::Column( "A1" , a1 )
      << Tuples::Column( "A2" , a2 )
      << Tuples::Column( "A3" , a3 ) ;

Using this technique one can put 'any' object into NTuple and create the own representation. E.g. if the 'standard' representation of HepLorentzVector is not suitable one can create the alternative representation.

Also one can create own representations of complex classes, e.g. class MCParticle :

template <>
inline Tuples::Tuple& operator<<
   ( Tuples::Tuple&                               tuple ,
    const Tuples::TupleColumn<const MCParticle*>& item  )
 {
   if( !tuple.valid() ) { return tuple ;}
   const MCParticle* mcp = item.value() ;
   tuple->column( item.name() + "Mom"   , mcp->momentum()          ) ;
   tuple->column( item.name() + "PID"   , mcp->particleID().pid()  ) ;
   tuple->column( item.name() + "hasVX" , 0 != mcp->originVertex() ) ;
 };



  Tuple tuple = ... ;
  const MCParticle* mcp = ... ;
  tuple << Tuples::Column( "MCP" , mcp ) ;

Author

Vanya BELYAEV Ivan..nosp@m.Bely.nosp@m.aev@i.nosp@m.tep..nosp@m.ru

Definition at line 257 of file Tuple.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

template<class ITEM>

Tuples::TupleColumn< ITEM >::TupleColumn ( std::string  name, ITEM  value  )

inline

Definition at line 260 of file Tuple.h.

: m_name( std::move( name ) ), m_value( std::move( value ) ) {}

Member Function Documentation

template<class ITEM>

const std::string& Tuples::TupleColumn< ITEM >::name ( ) const

inline

Return the column name.

Definition at line 263 of file Tuple.h.

{ return m_name; }

template<class ITEM>

const ITEM& Tuples::TupleColumn< ITEM >::value ( ) const

inline

Return the column value.

Definition at line 265 of file Tuple.h.

{ return m_value; }

Member Data Documentation

template<class ITEM>

std::string Tuples::TupleColumn< ITEM >::m_name

private

The column name.

Definition at line 268 of file Tuple.h.

template<class ITEM>

ITEM Tuples::TupleColumn< ITEM >::m_value

private

The column value.

Definition at line 269 of file Tuple.h.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• GaudiAlg/GaudiAlg/Tuple.h