class Packet

This is the abstract packet class

Inheritance:

Public Methods
inline virtual ~Packet(): the virtual destructor
virtual int iValue(const int channel): iValue returns the value of a given channel as an int.
virtual int iValue(const int channel, const char * what): with the "what" parameter you can decide which aspect of the data you want to see (for devices which have more than one)
virtual int iValue(const int channel, const int iy): this supports devices which are inherently organized as two-dimensional data, such as flash ADC's (channel vs time slice)
virtual float rValue(const int channel): rValue returns the value of a given channel as a float
virtual float rValue(const int channel, const char * what): with the "what" parameter you can decide which aspect of the data you want to see (for devices which have more than one)
virtual float rValue(const int channel, const int iy): this supports devices which are inherently organized as two-dimensional data, such as flash ADC's (channel vs time slice)
virtual int getArraylength(const char * what =""): getArraylength returns the length of the array needed to store the decoded values
virtual int fillIntArray(int destination[], const int length, int * nw, const char * what=""): fillIntArray and fillFloatArray fill existing (user-supplied) arrays with the decoded data
virtual int fillFloatArray(float destination[], const int length, int * nw, const char * what=""): fillFloatArray fills an array of floats
virtual int* getIntArray(int * nw, const char * =""): getIntArray and getFloatArray create a new array of the approriate size fill it with the decoded values, and return a pointer to the array.
virtual float* getFloatArray(int * nw, const char * =""): getFloatArray creates and returns an array of floats
virtual int is_pointer_type() const: find out what type (pointer- or data based) packet object we have
virtual int convert(): convert from pointer- to data based object, if it is already data-based, do nothing.
virtual int getLength() const: getLength() returns the length of the raw packet data.
virtual int getDebugLength() const: get the length of the debug block
virtual int getIdentifier() const: get the packet identifier
virtual int getPadding() const: get the number of padding units in the packet data.
virtual int getStructure() const: get the structure of the packet data; unformatted, hitlist, etc.
virtual int getHitFormat() const: get the hit format; in case of unformatted get the encoding scheme.
virtual int getDataLength() const: get what the name says...
virtual voidfullIdentify (std::ostream& os = std::cout) const (ostream & os = cout) const: write an indepth identification message to the supplied OSTREAM.
virtual void dump(std::ostream& os = std::cout): dump (either to standard output or the specified OSTREAM) the packet's data in some packet-specific way.
virtual void gdump(const int how = EVT_HEXADECIMAL, std::ostream& os = std::cout) const: Since dump() requires the packet data to be consistent, gdump ("generic" dump) dumps the data without making assumptions about the integrity of the packet data.