Abstract Data Interface Routines

The ADI routines provide the infrastructure with which ASTERIX data interface libraries are constructed. Applications generally manipulate data using interfaces designed for a particular data type, eg. binned or event data. These interfaces perform operations on the underlying files using file format specific routines.

ADI File Representations

ADI supports different file representations, including HDS and FITS. When specifying file names the representation name can be appended to the filename either to resolve ambiguity or to coerce the representation to a particular value. Default representations for particular classes Binds.DefaultRepresentation = "hds"

David J. Allan (dja@star.sr.bham.ac.uk)