[ome-devel] ST FilenamePattern & TheT

[Joshua Allen Moore]

In the discussion with Urban today, I addressed this. I basically told him for a
quick fix I want the time index added as metadata. What's that--another 9
characters in the file name. big whoop. 

However, there's obviously a lot of other goodies in the name. Can we get a hook
in the importers so we can register import-time modules. I can use it to parse
the filenames and spit out a few more STs. If so, we've got our time deltas!

-Josh

Quoting Ilya Goldberg <igg at nih.gov>:

> Unfortunately, they won't be interpreted correctly.  This is a case  
> where you're encoding meta-data in the file name, and it won't wind up  
> where its supposed to in the DB.  The FilenamePattern ST really only  
> works when the filename contains indexes in the 5-d space - I can't  
> think of a good way for it to decode meta-data.  If there is some other 
> way of preserving the meta-data, or annotating it later, then you could 
> put in a mechanism (using a flag?) to get the dimension indexes through 
> a lexical sort of whatever is in your regex.  But this kind of throwing 
> away of important stuff is not very good.
> 
> The Import module is declared with a type "any" output, so it can  
> already put out any kind of ST.  If you had a way to generate the  
> indexes (using a flag to get them from a sort), you could also (maybe)  
> specify that the regex should populate a certain ST.  This is much,  
> much more than we had in mind for FilenamePattern.
> 
> With an hour or so's work, you can probably cut and paste your way to a 
> 
> customized tiff importer that does exactly what you want.
> 
> -Ilya