Users Guide

Througout this manual we assume that every source snippet has somewhere

#include<h5cpp/h5cpp.hpp>
 
namespace h5 = h5cpp;

included.

Managing files

//creating a new file
h5::file f1 = h5::file::create("name.h5",....);
 
//opening an existing file
h5::file f2 = h5::file::open("name.h5",....);

Unlike in the C-API an instance of h5::file is not a valid parent object. For this purpose one has get the root group of the file with

h5::group root_group = f.root();

with groups

h5::group g = root_group.create("new_group",....);

Need to find a good way how to handle group creation property lists.

Groups should provide a STL compliant iterator interface

std::vector<h5::dataset> datasets; 
h5::group g = ....;
 
std::copy_if(g.begin(),g.end(),std::back_inserter(datasets),
             [](const auto &o) { return h5::is_dataset(o); });

hello

Datasets

and writing data

container adapter

using value_type = std::vector<double>;
using adapter_type = h5::container_type<value_type>;
 
h5::dataset d = group["detector_data"];
 
//container adapter for dataset d along the first dimension
adapter_type frames(d,0);
 
for(auto frame: frames)
{
    //process the frame
}

Attributes