[ome-devel] ome access with c++

[gerhard]

T. J. Macura wrote:
>
> On Sep 23, 2005, at 11:44 AM, gerhard wrote:
>
>> T. J. Macura wrote:
>>
>>> Gerhard,
>>>
>>>> reading through the posts of the last months I saw several postings
>>>> about accessing ome with c++;
>>>
>>> I can only speak about C client-library access to OMEIS.
>>> That exists, has been thoroughly tested, and we use it nearly
>>> constantly (through MEX bindings to MATLAB).
>>>
>>> It is even documented: 
>>> http://www.openmicroscopy.org/api/omeis/client-interface.html
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>> Thanks very much,
>> but are there methods to upload and download files from OMEIS.
> Those weren't implemented. Knowing  C, Perl, and OME internals I would
> find writing an image format importer in C++ (how would it interface
> with OME's Perl Logical Layer?) is much harder than writing it in
> Perl. If there are some specific functions e.g. decompression which
> are easier to write in C, perhaps XS perl bindings are the way forward.
>
>> Reading through the methods section the most functions aren't'
>> implemented (file methods..)
> "most functions" depends on the perspective. I implemented all the
> functions that were important to me and meet a wide range of needs. I
> didn't implement the other functions because we didn't have any real
> use-cases for them. I would be quite willing to implement OMEIS
> client-libarary  functions you need for your work.
>
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>I think at the moment the  C client library can only be used to get
>pixels out of OME and run for example algorithmns on them.
>But how does shoola access OME? XML-RPC and HTTP. But both can be used
>also in C++. QT for example has classes to access http....
>