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.. _HDF_Protocol1:
Solution 1. The class provides the transformation into a dict of hdf-compliant objects
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Principle
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The object which can be reduced to and reconstructed from a dictionary whose keys are strings,
and whose values are of one of the following types :
- a scalar (int, float, complex ....)
- a numpy array of scalars
- an hdf-compliant object
- a list, a tuple or a dict of any of the types above.
A class `cls` has to implement :
.. py:method:: __reduce_to_dict__()
Returns a dictionary of objects implementing :ref:`hdf-compliant <HDF_Protocol>`
or basic objects as number, strings, and arrays of numbers (any type and shape).
:rtype: a dictionary
.. py:classmethod:: __factory_from_dict__(cls,D) :
A **classmethod** which reconstructs a new object of type `cls`
from the dictionary returned by :func:`__reduce_to_dict__`.
:param cls: the class
:param D: the dictionary returned by __reduce_to_dict__.
:rtype: a new object of type `cls`
Example
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A little example::
class Example:
def __init__(self,d,t) :
self.d,self.t = d,t # some data
def __reduce_to_dict__(self) :
return {'d' : self.d, 't': self.t}
@classmethod
def __factory_from_dict__(cls,D) :
return cls(D['d'],D['t'])
# registering my class
from pytriqs.archive.hdf_archive_schemes import register_class
register_class (myclass)
# Testing it :
HDFArchive("myfile2.h5")['e'] = Example( [1,2,3], 56)
What happens in details ?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Let us consider an object `Ob` of class `Cls`, interacting with and :py:class:`~pytriqs.archive.hdf_archive.HDFArchive`/:py:class:`~pytriqs.archive.hdf_archive.HDFArchiveGroup` `H`.
* **Writing** ::
H[Name] = Ob
* a subgroup `S` of path `Root_of_H/Name` is created.
* Ob.__reduce_to_dict__() is called and returns a dictionary `D` of scalar/numpy arrays/hdf-compliant objects.
* The objects in `D` are then stored `S` in a regular way (scalar/arrays) or using the same recursive procedure (other objects).
* `S` is tagged with the attribute `HDF5_data_scheme` of `Cls`.
* **Reading** ::
res = H[Name]
* The subgroup `S` of path `Root_of_H/Name` is explored. All objects are taken to build a dictionary `D` : name -> values.
This procedure is recursive : the hdf-compliant objects in the subgroup are rebuilt.
* An attribute `HDF5_data_scheme` is searched for `S`.
* If it is found and it corresponds to a registered class `Cls` :
* Cls.__factory_from_dict__(D) is called and returns a new object Obj of type Cls, which is returned as `res`.
* Otherwise, a new :py:class:`~pytriqs.archive.hdf_archive.HDFArchiveGroup` is constructed with `S` as root, and returned as `res`.