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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