Thread for newbie questions / FAQ

[joequant]

Some newbie questions:

1. What environment variables need to be set in order to get root loading to work?

2. Is there is simple text file read / write? I'd like to have a test system that just does a simple ascii/load save.

3. Any interest is setting up a chat room to deal with newbie questions? :-) :-) If so what's the preferred forum?

Looking through the code, the collections itself seems pretty simple, but the messy bits are the read/write with root.

[andresailer]

1

If you mean the loading of the dictionary on demand, then the LD_LIBRARY_PATH has to contain the path where the *.rootmap files are found

2

There is no ascii reader/writer for podio data at the moment.

3

I don't really have an opinion on this. I like things being on github for their publicity.

[joequant]

There's a file src/ASCIIWriter.cc and a unit test for ascii writing. Is that a data writer or something else.

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[andresailer]

You're totally correct.
There is also an example for that https://github.com/AIDASoft/podio/blob/6019f0f3eb9c4924f8fd21d48cbbd30aab8784cc/tests/write_ascii.cpp
Edit: as you also mentioned

[tmadlener]

To be addressed with #379