Container with Native Operation Routines by XZ (CNORXZ)

Description

This library provides a framework for handling multi dimensional containers, their meta data, and several kinds of operations on one or more of them.

Build instructions

The library can be installed by the following procedure (gtest required):

git clone git@git.f3l.de:chizeta/cnorxz.git <SOURCE_DIR>
cd <BUILD_DIR>
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=<INSTALL_DIR> <SOURCE_DIR>
make install

To build the doxygen:

cd <SOURCE_DIR>/doc/doxy
doxygen Doxyfile

Linking

To use the features of the libraries one has to include cnorxz.h and link against the libcnorxz.so. The tools of the library are accessible within the namespace CNORXZ.

Documentation

(Also consider doxygen)

Basics

This library consists of several building blocks. For simple usage, the most important building blocks are ranges, indices and array types.

Ranges

Basically, a range defines a meta data space. There are several range class types, which are derived from the abstract base class RangeBase. Ranges can only be created by the corresponding factory and exclusively exist within a shared pointer; they cannot be copied. Available range class types are:

• CRange : Classic one-dimensional range. The meta data space is simply given by integer numbers running from 0 to size-1. The range size is determined at runtime.

• URange<MetaT> : Generic One-dimensional range. The meta data space is user defined, the meta data type is passed as template argument. The range size is determined at runtime.

• SRange<MetaT,S> : The same as URange, but the range length is fixed at compile time by the template integer variable S.

• PRange<RangeT> : Partial or sub-range, i.e. a user-defined subspace of another range. The type of the range must be known at compile time, the subspace can be specified at runtime.

• MRange<RangeTs...> : Multi-dimensional range, spanned by a set of ranges. The number of ranges, as well as their types must be known at compile time.

• YRange : The same as MRange but the number of ranges and their types can be specified at runtime.

Indices

For each range type there is a corresponding index type (CIndex, UIndex<MetaT>, SIndex<MetaT,S>, PIndex<IndexT>, MIndex<IndexTs...>, YIndex). They act as const iterators on the ranges and are a crucial component to define operations on containers. In contrast to the ranges, all index types must be known at compile time (static polymorphism, IndexInterface<Index,MetaT>).

Apart from range specific indices, there exist also special indices:

• DIndex : Dynamic index wrapper, for the case that the index type cannot be determined at compile time.

• AIndex<T> : Array index. Const iterators pointing to the data of an array-type object with data type T.

• BIndex<T> : The same as AIndex, but not const.

Arrays

Finally, there are the container classes (arrays), which are derived from CArrayBase<T> (const) or ArrayBase<T> for a given data type T. All arrays are defined on a range, their data can be accessed or iterated over using suitable indices. The array-type actually containing data is called MArray<T>. Moreover, there exist array-types that do not contain data, but view the data of other arrays or at least parts of the data. These are called CSlice<T> (const view) or Slice.