Re: names of RealTypes

• To: "V. Lakshmanan" <lakshman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: names of RealTypes
• From: Tom Whittaker <tomw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 11:49:34 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)

Lak:

If you had tried to create a new RealType using the constructor, you
would have received an Exception like:

   visad.TypeException: ScalarType: name cannot contain space . ( or )

The getRealTYpe method of creating a RealType swallows the Exception so
you never see it...and it returns a 'null'.

tom


On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, V.  Lakshmanan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm back bugging y'all again.  Are there restrictions
> on what the names of RealTypes can be?
>
> If temp is "Reflectivity" in this snippet, things work fine,
> but if temp is "Reflectivity00.50", then I get a
> visad.FieldException
>   FlatField: FunctionType must be Flat        at
> visad.FlatField.<init>(FlatField.java:296)
>
> code snippet:
>         gatevalue = RealType.getRealType( temp );
>         FunctionType func2 = new FunctionType( domainTuple, gatevalue
> );
>         Set xyzSet = new Gridded3DSet( domainTuple, xyz,
>                                        num_radials, num_gates );
>         FlatField gate_ff = new FlatField( func2, xyzSet );
>
> thanks
> Lak
>
>

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Tom Whittaker
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Space Science and Engineering Center
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
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