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Revision as of 14:22, 30 June 2009
Introduction
ROOT objects can be serialized to a byte array or reconstructed from the byte array quite easily. One reason to do this might be to store or transport ROOT objects in a way not supported by ROOT itself. An example is transport of a ROOT histogram from a producer to a consumer program via the cMsg package, a publish/subscribe messaging system that will be used extensively in the Hall D online monitoring system (see section on Example Programs below).
Serialize
ROOT TMessage objects can hold serialized ROOT objects. They are filled via the write() method:
WriteObject(some_root_object); // get pointer to internal buffer and length char *buffer = tm->Buffer(); int bufferLength = tm->Length()); // in bytes
Deserialize
Example Programs
cMsgRootProducer.cc,cMsgRootConsumer.cc,Makefile Examples demonstrate transport via cMsg package.