Ticket #414 (closed enhancement: fixed)
Opened 2009-09-08T15:16:22-05:00
Last modified 2011-02-02T04:45:00-06:00
Serialize reader state
| Reported by: | curtis | Owned by: | curtis |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: |
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| Component: | bio-formats | Severity: | serious |
| Keywords: | Cc: | bakosg@…, josh.moore@… | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: |
Description
Some formats take a long time to parse. Often the reader implementations could stand to be optimized further, but some cases may simply require searching through a large amount of binary data to find planar offsets and other important metadata.
Ideally, Bio-Formats would be able to parse each file once (i.e., initFile()), and then optionally cache the results to a format-specific data object, which is serializable to (e.g.) disk. It could then later be retrieved and used to quickly reinitialize the reader with respect to that same file.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 2009-09-18T15:41:07-05:00 by curtis
Possible serialization libraries to use include XStream and JAXB.