Re: Name for Tuple ?

• To: "Peter X. Cao" <xcao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Name for Tuple ?
• From: Bill Hibbard <hibbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 12:22:46 -0600

Hi Peter,

> What I am going to ask may not make much sense to you.
> Can we set and get name for Tuple ? Since HDF5 groups are
> mapped into Tuples and HDF5 groups have names, I need to
> reserve the names of the groups in Tuples so I can retrieve them
> later.

The visad.Tuple class does not have a name field, but your
HDF-5 adapter could construct its Data objects using an
extension of Tuple such as:

public class NamedTuple extends Tuple {
  private String name;

  public NamedTuple(TupleType type, Data[] datums, boolean copy, String n)
         throws VisADException, RemoteException {
    super(type, datums, copy);
    name = n;
  }

  // . . . other constructors


  public String getName() {
    return name;
  }
}

Of course, VisAD's internal logic would know nothing about
this, so for example adding two such Data objects would
produce a result that did not use any NamedTuples.  If this
is a problem for you, we could add a name String field to
visad.Tuple.

Cheers,
Bill
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  • Name for Tuple ?
    • From: Peter X. Cao