Class ColFitsTableBuilder

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    uk.ac.starlink.table.Documented, uk.ac.starlink.table.formats.DocumentedIOHandler, uk.ac.starlink.table.TableBuilder

    public class ColFitsTableBuilder
    extends uk.ac.starlink.table.formats.DocumentedTableBuilder
    Implementation of the TableBuilder interface which reads tables stored in 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:
    26 Jun 2006
    Author:
    Mark Taylor
    • Method Summary

      All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods 
      Modifier and Type Method Description
      boolean canImport​(java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor flavor)  
      boolean canStream()  
      boolean docIncludesExample()  
      java.lang.String getFormatName()  
      java.lang.String getXmlDescription()  
      uk.ac.starlink.table.StarTable makeStarTable​(uk.ac.starlink.util.DataSource datsrc, boolean wantRandom, uk.ac.starlink.table.StoragePolicy storagePolicy)  
      void streamStarTable​(java.io.InputStream in, uk.ac.starlink.table.TableSink sink, java.lang.String pos)  
      • Methods inherited from class uk.ac.starlink.table.formats.DocumentedTableBuilder

        getExtensions, looksLikeFile
      • 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.formats.DocumentedIOHandler

        readText
    • Constructor Detail

      • ColFitsTableBuilder

        public ColFitsTableBuilder()
        Default constructor.
      • ColFitsTableBuilder

        public ColFitsTableBuilder​(WideFits wide)
        Constructor.
        Parameters:
        wide - convention for representing extended columns; use null to avoid use of extended columns
    • Method Detail

      • getFormatName

        public java.lang.String getFormatName()
      • streamStarTable

        public void streamStarTable​(java.io.InputStream in,
                                    uk.ac.starlink.table.TableSink sink,
                                    java.lang.String pos)
                             throws uk.ac.starlink.table.TableFormatException
        Throws:
        uk.ac.starlink.table.TableFormatException
      • canImport

        public boolean canImport​(java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor flavor)
      • makeStarTable

        public uk.ac.starlink.table.StarTable makeStarTable​(uk.ac.starlink.util.DataSource datsrc,
                                                            boolean wantRandom,
                                                            uk.ac.starlink.table.StoragePolicy storagePolicy)
                                                     throws java.io.IOException
        Throws:
        java.io.IOException
      • canStream

        public boolean canStream()
        Specified by:
        canStream in class uk.ac.starlink.table.formats.DocumentedTableBuilder
      • docIncludesExample

        public boolean docIncludesExample()
      • getXmlDescription

        public java.lang.String getXmlDescription()