[ome-devel] [ome-files] Why is sizeC in CoreMetadata a vector?

[Josh Moore]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 6:19 AM, Dennis Ai <dennis.ai at sri.com> wrote:
> Hi OME Team,

Hi Dennis,

> I was looking through the documentation for CoreMetadata.  Why is the sizeC
> attribute a vector instead of just a single value?
>
> https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/ome-files-cpp/0.5.0/ome-files/api/html/classome_1_1files_1_1CoreMetadata.html#a42404539192f9484ff9771f9d479d7ef

Having sizeC as a vector permits expressing subchannel information, as
with RGB data.

The tutorial[1] provides examples of working with this construct. I've
filed an issue [2] for updating the header. Thanks for the heads up.


> Dennis Ai

Cheers,
~Josh

[1] https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/ome-files-cpp/0.5.0/ome-files/manual/html/tutorial.html#core-metadata

[2] https://github.com/ome/ome-files-cpp/issues/94