[Nexus-developers] NeXus-2010 workshop

[Carlos Pascual Izarra]

On Tue May 18 2010 15:32:39 freddie.akeroyd at stfc.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I'm glad you had a productive meeting.
> 
> I agree with the idea of an NXsubentry (1.2.1), but I've been thinking
> if this is the best name. As it is related to an "application or domain
> specific definition" maybe the class name should reflect this? Something
> along the lines of NXappdef, NXapplication, ... However the counter
> argument is that application definitions already apply to NXentry so
> calling it "NXsubentry" fits more with the current model. I was
> wondering though if we were moving towards application definitions only
> applying to "subentries" and not to "entries" themselves in which case
> an NXappdef etc. class name could be a more appropriate.

Actually, the name we used originally was NXApplication, but after some debate 
we considered that the class was actually just the same as an NXentry (only 
that it was within an NXentry). Hence NXsubentry.

But I think everybody in the group who made the proposal would agree in that 
the name is non-important as long as the functionality is provided.

> 
> With regard to scaled data (1.2.2) were there any requests to add
> utilities to the API to apply the scaling "on the fly" as the data was
> read?

We didn't think about that, but I find it feature since it solves the main 
problem that would be present otherwise: choosing a syntax for defining 
mathematical operations and describing how it should be interpreted by the 
data consumer. If the conversion is handled by the NAPI, there would be no 
room for implementation discrepancies. 


Cheers!

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