Adding a format is conceptually simple. You must
Write a CSpectrumFormatter
derived class.
Add an instance of your formatter to the
CSpectrumFormatterFactory,
associating it with a formatter name string.
The key methods you must implement in your formatter class are:
virtual CSpectrum* Read (std::istream& rStream,
ParameterDictionary& rDict);
virtual void Write (std::ostream& rStream, CSpectrum& rSpectrum,
ParameterDictionary& rDict);
Read is expected to read a spectrum
from the input stream rStream and
return a dynamically allocated spectrum.
rDict is the parameter dictionary,
which can be used to take any metadata supplied by the
file about parameters and spectrum types to know how to
construct the spectrum.
Similarly, Write takes a
CSpectrum object and is expected to
serialize it to an output stream rStream.
rDict is the parameter dictionary and
can be used by the method to generate any metadata needed to
describe the spectrum.