[Tubetk-developers] ParameterSerializer classes are on Gerrit

[Matt McCormick]

That is an awesome idea, too.  I will give it a try...

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Stephen Aylward
<stephen.aylward at kitware.com> wrote:
> Interesting idea!  My thought is that it could be independent of itk for the
> apps.   Something for serializing a command line.
>
> Tracks version of code used, args, inputs, and whatever data the developer
> feels is necessary.
>
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> On Feb 16, 2013 8:30 PM, "Matt McCormick" <matt.mccormick at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> That sounds like a great idea.  Currenty, a class and all its
>> component classes get serialized.  We could also possibly make a class
>> that, given a class at the tip of a pipeline, would travel the
>> pipeline and also serialize all the inputs.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Stephen Aylward
>> <stephen.aylward at kitware.com> wrote:
>> > Can we extend this to serialization of applications?
>> >
>> > For example, in CalaTK each application can read/write a json file
>> > that contains its parameters.  I envision such capabilities as an
>> > enhancement to GenerateCLP.
>> >
>> > s
>> >
>> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Matt McCormick
>> > <matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I finished the ParameterSerializer classes, and the patch is up on
>> >> Gerrit for review:
>> >>
>> >>   http://review.source.kitware.com/#/c/9602/
>> >>
>> >> These classes provide a way to write and read the parameters from an
>> >> analysis to a file to experiment with parameters, store parameters for
>> >> later reproduction, etc.  Some nice things:
>> >>
>> >> - It does not require instrumentation of any of the target classes,
>> >> which keeps a nice separation and allows us to create a Serializer
>> >> class for any itk::LightObject.
>> >> - The archiver is sufficiently separated such that it would easy to
>> >> implement an HDF5, XML, MetaIO, etc., archiver in the future.
>> >> - Parameters that are also objects are recursively serialized without
>> >> duplication of code.
>> >>
>> >> Please take a look if you have a chance.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Matt
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